Poetry. Susan Edwards Richmond's PURGATORY CHASM is a collection of 30 poems inspired by the Massachusetts State Reservation where the author frequently hikes. Her lines, rhythms, and images are as solid and as hard as the truth of stone, as the poet weaves geology and history, along with the voices of other hikers and the imagined voices of the ghosts of people who have died among these rocks, into poems of strength and value. Limited to 326 hand-sewn copies letterpress printed from handset Garamond types onto recycled and acid free paper.

Author City: MA USA

SUSAN EDWARDS RICHMOND's poems have appeared in such journals as Appalachia, Birdwatcher s Digest, Blueline, Kimera, Women Outdoors, Sanctuary, and The Iowa, Green Mountains, Earthwise, and Seattle Reviews. She teaches creative writing at the Shirley (Massachusetts) Medium Correctional Facility. She is the author of the chapbooks Birding in Winter (Finishing Line, 2006) and Boto (Adastra, 2002).