Susan Kinsolving's Books
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 & Rushes she has gotten herself -- and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well...
Feb.18.1999
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, animals, fruit. What she finds there, as often as not, is the self writ small:...
About Susan
Susan Kinsolving's three books of poems are The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award, and Among Flowers.
Her books have been critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street...
Causes Susan Kinsolving Supports
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