Poetry | Poetry
Sep.08.2008
"Robert Wrigley is an historian of the present. His smart, moving poems are attuned to the drama of the moment, and his honest, musical language lifts real experience deftly into art."--Billy Collins
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Sep.08.2008
"Wrigley ponders what it is that we have that animals lack, and what animals have that we can only long for: their perfect fit witht he cosmos.... Dramatic and heady, his transporting poems knit us tightly into the glistening web of life"--Booklist
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Sep.08.2008
A selection of poems from my first six books, as well as a group of new poems.
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Sep.05.2008
Qustions of geography, ethnic identity, and the corssing of cultural borders keep company with poetic form in this first collection of work.
"These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial . Susan Rich is a caring citizen of every heartland."-Naomi...
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Sep.03.2008
From Library Journal "What is poetry in wartime?" News anchors around the world apologize for showing explicit footage, but, as one Al Jazeera broadcaster says, "The world should know the truth." Rich has seen more of the world than most of us, and her poems bring back a truth...
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Sep.02.2008
J.D. McClatchy said: "Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day's figures and memory's pattern. But she' s headed towards love: the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies &...
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Sep.02.2008
Dailies and Rushes opens with the disappointment of a present not received: "And so / it's been in all my words and hopes: / poems, the elusive gift, the microscope." In the poems that follow, Susan Kinsolving holds a kind of microscope to the visible world, examining jellyfish, blossoms...
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