Poetry. Investigations of childhood from a philosophical perspective, asking how to reconcile childhood with suffering and as a real and imagined place, always subject to re-call. Writing out of the experience of adoption, Schultz uses language from her son's experience to think about ways in which "the political is personal."

Author City: HONOLULU, HI USA

Susan M. Schultz is a poet, critic, and publisher who lives in Kane`ohe, Hawai`i on the island of O`ahu. She is author of ADDENDA (Meow Press, 1998), ALEATORY ALLEGORIES (Salt Publishing, 2000), MEMORY CARDS AND ADOPTION PAPERS (Potes & Poets Press, 2001), And Then Something Happened (Salt Publishing, 2004), No Guns, No Durian (Tinfish Press, 2004), A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005), DEMENTIA BLOG (Singing Horse Press, 2008) and MEMORY CARDS: 2010-2011 SERIES (Singing Horse Press, 2011); and she edited The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 1995). She edits Tinfish Press and teaches at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa.