Sunset Beach Dances: The Infinite Rhythms of a North Carolina Seashore
Over a span of more than a decade, poet and photographer Sheree K. Nielsen, her husband, and their fur babies have visited Sunset Beach, on the coast of North Carolina, many times. They have experienced the chilly air of March, the sun-kissed month of May, the salty sea sprays of September, and the Halloween-hued sunsets of October. There Nielsen has found comfort and solace while walking the beach. In honor of all the hard times—and definitely the good—she dances on the beach, especially at sunset on the night before they head home. Let Sunset Beach Dances, its poetry and photography, transport you back to your favorite beach, no matter where you are, no matter your worries—and, by all means, dance. NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines ISBN: 978-1-956056-99-0 (print; softcover; perfect bound)
LCCN: 2023943060 Released August 2023;
Copyright 2023 106 pages | 39 full-color images |
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Event at Main Street Book, St. Charles, Missouri, August 26, 2023
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Sheree is author/photographer/poet of 2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner Coffee Coma, poems and photographs about our love affair and life with coffee, having received First Place in Photography/Fine Art and Honorable Mention in Poetry. A 2019 Royal Dragonfly Book Award Winner, Mondays in October, love songs for the beach, received First Place in Poetry, Fine Art/Photography and Honorable Mention for Coffee Table Books. Other books include the 2015 Da Vinci Eye Award Winner Folly Beach Dances, inspired by the sea and her lymphoma journey; the 2019 Chanticleer Little Peeps First Place Category Winner and Montaigne Medal Finalist Midnight The One-Eyed Cat. a picture book; and the 2019 Chanticleer Finalist Ocean Rhythms Kindred Spirits: An Emerson-Inspired Essay Collection on Travel, Nature, Family and Pets. Her other works are well represented in travel magazines and publications. When not writing, she’s discovering new beaches and cafes with her patient husband. Four content cats complete her family. Connect with Sheree at shereenielsen.wordpress.com.
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“This collection slides you into all that is the seashore. Only a few poems into the book, my senses took hold of salty memories so vivid, so lyrical, so sensual with depth. Sheree K. Nielsen’s love affair with the ocean swims through these pages, inviting the reader to come share with her what God has so profoundly gifted us . . . that we often forget. Nobody can visit the coast and not fall into a romantic trance, and the poet has gifted us with a chance to do so when we aren’t there to get our feet wet. I love this collection!” “In Sheree K. Nielsen’s new collection, Sunset Beach Dances: The Infinite Rhythms of a North Carolina Seashore, the poet announces almost immediately that ‘My heart lies with the sea.’ Yet these poems are anything but still. Waves may rest in the body’s museum for sentiment and memory, but the lines in the collection gather witness for the dance of bodies—some in sand, many in captured wonder after a day near water and its mysteries. Nielsen is a writer whose gift is to hold up a mirror for her readers so they might remember, long for, and pause intently in the recognition that they, too, have given something of their precious Self to the wildness of surf and tide.” “Sheree Nielsen is a beach-lover, but more than that, she is on a quest to find herself on a beach—like so many of us. She walks with her dogs to find her soul. She has a longing to run and find her wild. She wanders and meanders, even knowing that her time is limited. ‘We are all just visitors on temporary vacation doing the best we can.’ Yes, and we all are searching for a way home to ourselves. Her poems are satisfying, the same way the waves soothe us but leave us aching for more.” | |||||||||||||
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SHEREE K. NIELSEN believes that every picture tells a story, combining her love of photography and writing with colorful visual descriptions and healing messages found in her coffee table books, essay collections, and children’s books. She finds inspiration in travel, nature, family, and pets. As a two-time survivor of Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia lymphoma, she believes in cherishing every moment of life. 
