Poetry. Like lyric field notes from a worldwide anthropological journey, Briante's poems scrutinize human and urban situations. "Amid a riot of signals, cranes, and circuitry--from Mexico City to Antarctica--the reader succumbs to a sense of non-stop construction, to the craven expansion of cities in the glistening fields. In the chaos of sensory overload, the poet still manages to detect 'droplets of pollen slip from anther to stamen,' to feel a stream running dry inside. It's a work of shuddering velocity--an ode, a screed, a lament, a love song of 'pristine and inarticulate mornings.' Susan Briante's PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION details the ravages of the world in a voracious struggle to savor its sweetness"--C.D. Wright.

Author City: DALLAS, TX USA

Susan Briante was born in Newark, N.J., after the riots. She is the author of UTOPIA MINUS and PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION as well as an essayist on industrial ruins, abandoned buildings and cultural memory. She lives in East Dallas with the poet Farid Matuk.

Reviews and Other Links
Laura Hinton at Chant de la Sirene
http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/susan-briantes-pioneers-in-study-of.html
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/pioneers-in-study-of-motion-by-susan.html