This little book of poem fragments is dedicated to the androgynous poet Sappho, whose legend and verse became real to a poet in the Maine winter of 2012 AD. "A diaphanous and yet keenly visceral work of art...between sadness and desire, this poetic sequence makes wholeness of fragmentation. Such a strong juxtaposition: the fragments of an ancient poet - and the deconstruction of a life in the present. The poet puts the trauma of today in mythic perspective. With "The Sound of Loneliness" you listen for life's meaning. Truth answers in sorrow - beauty with wonder." --A.A. Attanasio, author of Centuries