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Description of  Magnificent Errors (Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry)

Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope. In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Lunas third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the marginswhether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personaland celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and people living in a mental health community setting. The authors own journey to recovery from childhood abuse and mental illness also illuminates how healing is possible. Read more