Description
Poetry. "Susan Terris's new and selected poems is described best in the surprising way its images align as proofs of story with and against voice. Sometimes the voice is made missile with the oddest lyric arc and target. These are strongly meditative poems. This is a wonderful book."—Norman Dubie
"Beginning with the newest 'Ghostlit' sequence—which is wrenching and shattering—and then moving chronologically from the earliest work, feels completely natural, and GHOST OF YESTERDAY actually provides an extraordinary context for even the very earliest poems from Curved Space and especially, of course, for the big build to the remarkable poems of THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF—and that work remains, for me, the most accomplished and heart-breaking work by anybody in these past twenty years. It's subtle and eloquent and devastating. It is, in the end, truly a kind of 'wisdom literature' in the oldest sense—battered, brave, resilient, loving, humane, intelligent, wicked, and always wise. And the writing here is impeccable, always."—David St. John
Author Bio
Susan Terris' recent books are DREAM FRAGMENTS (Swan Scythe Press, 2020), FAMILIAR TENSE (Marsh Hawk, 2019), Take Two: Film Studies (Omnidawn, 2017), Memos (Omnidawn, 2015), and GHOST OF YESTERDAY (Marsh Hawk, 2012). She is the author of 7 books of poetry, 16 chapbooks, 3 artist's books, and one play. A poem of hers appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos was in Best American Poetry 2015. This chapbook won the 2019 Swan Scythe Chapbook Award. Ms. Terris is an editor emerita of Spillway Magazine and a poetry editor at Pedestal.
Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA