A Land in the Storytelling Sea: A North American in Malta

Sensual, painterly, even prayerful, these 50 poems and 50 full color original pictures by Sheryl Loeffler deepen into a land of legend and myth, an island populated, past and present, by saints, beggars and pirates, all of whom are blessed by “vivid geometries” of light. Sheryl Loeffler portrays Malta as a country awash in splendor and contradiction, “this land where Christians call God Alla.” A Land in the Storytelling Sea is quietly pleasurable in its narrative journey and in its subtle and seductive craft.

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‍About the Author

Sheryl Loeffler is a writer and musician who has lived and worked in Canada all her adult life. She holds degrees from Wittenberg University and the University of Waterloo. She has also pursued doctoral studies in Renaissance Drama at the University of Toronto. During the 1990s, Sheryl Loeffler served as senior writer at Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Telecollege Productions Inc. Her 12 half-hour scripts on Canadian Political Science were produced and aired for several years on TVOntario. In April 2005, Sheryl Loeffler jumped off the edge of her known universe to live and write in Malta, at the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, returning to Canada in May 2006. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines in Austria, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.