Description
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize Book Award. "The poems in Susan Azar Porterfield's DIRT, ROOT, SILK dig deeply and with precision into the hidden layers of human relationships. Whether the geography is her own mind and body, her backyard, the endless cornfields of the Midwest, or the world at large, the poems are a discovery of both the strengths and fragility of the human condition." —James Ballowe
Author Bio
Susan Azar Porterfield is the author of KIBBE (Mayapple Press) and a chapbook, Beirut Redux (Finishingline). Her work has appeared in, among other places, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Ireland Review. She is the editor of Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Ohio UP) and has written on Stryk for Poets & Writers as well as AWP's The Writer's Chronicle. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and is the Associate Poetry Editor of Fifthwednesday Journal. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Rockford University.
Author City: DE KALB, IL USA