![]() This reference to love in her work alludes to her own desire for love in her life, not just any love, but a joyous love, that evades the sadness practically synonymous to any affair of the heart. Sandell makes the connection between love and sadness, this is captivating because there are so many “sad things” connected with love, due to baggage its is associated with, such as unrequited love and the Romeo and Juliet scenario, but in reality love is a beautiful thing that everyone is striving to obtain, but not everyone can fully grasp. Lisa Sandell often ponders love throughout her books asking, “Why does love seem to go with the sad things?” (A Map of the Unknown World 139:17-18). Sandell’s recurring theme of women developing emotionally and their pursuit of love, appear in much of her writing, symbolizing her own emotional struggles and those related to love she herself searches for. All of this is expressed in Lisa Ann Sandell’s life and in her poetry, through a theme of Love revealed in the form of symbolism, not just in the romantic sense, but also in her deep-rooted love for Israel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her work not only bring joy to her readers, but hope to Israel, the country she loves, while seamlessly accommodating to the yearnings for romantic material from the young adult audience. Lisa Ann Sandell is a fictional seamstress of words, sewing together strings of phrases to create novel length free verse poetry. ![]()
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