Tara Sparbel

Stomp Your Boots With Some Vigor Tara Sparbel

It is a slow morning. You are moseying about on an apple slice and ginger tea stomach, picking up books and setting them down, opening the shades to reveal wasps nests, but rarely opening the door. Slow mornings are the perfect time to sit, inside or out, enjoying Tara Sparbel's, Stomp Your Boots With Some Vigor. These poems offer solace in a world chaotic, and cling to you and sing to you when you've no energy to do much more than watch hot water turn peppermint. It is a journey through the seasons: immersed in the landscapes of Wisconsin and Colorado, exploring the restlessness of self care, relationships, and reflection. An adventure in finding strength in sunsets, the moon, flowers, and each other. It explores grief, loneliness, health, and letting go with empathy, wit, courage, and heart. Stomp Your Boots With Some Vigor is a book that invites you to feel cozy in scary and exciting life transitions and that uncertain bridge in between: each of us pausing momentarily to feed our sadness to the setting sun, eyes met with hope on the horizon. "Reading Tara's work in sequence is such a gift. So much of this feels familiar and so much of it feels like a brand new way to describe feelings I've always felt, but have never been able to articulate. She plays with sound. It demands to be read OUT LOUD, but it won't be mad if you read it in your head, and giggle a time or two."- Sarah Mayhak, Poet/ Communication Instructor at James Madison University. For more information, Contact: Tara. Sparbel@yahoo.com