ALL THE MEADOWS WIDE: a story of hope and resilience - Softcover

Vernon, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998313971 ISBN 13: 9780998313979

Publisher: Crow Flies Press, 2025

Synopsis

Sean Vernon was on his way to a pursuing a career in music as a singer/songwriter. Setting the poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, and Yeats to music and performing his own original songs at both intimate and large venues, his career was about to take off. Then in 1986, the thirty-year-old musician was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. As aspects of normal life were stripped away, he was determined to keep writing and making music, producing seven albums, and publishing a book of poetry. ALL THE MEADOWS WIDE follows his journey through it all, and is told here with honesty, vulnerability, and humor. It is the story of hope in the face of a devastating prognosis, and a call to self-acceptance and love.

“...Anyone who is truly alive, or wants to be, will find every shadow and every sweet slant of light in Sean Vernon’s life. We’re lucky to share this earth with him and, in this book, to see it through his eyes.”
~ Dan Lombardo, Author of A Hedge Away, The Other Side of Emily Dickinson’s Amherst

About this title

About the Author

Sean Vernon is a teacher, essayist, poet, singer/songwriter and composer who received his MFA from the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crow Flies Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998313971
• ISBN 13: 9780998313979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222