Asunder (National Poetry Series) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Asunder (National Poetry Series) Saturday, November 14 2009.

• Chosen for the National Poetry Series by Garrett Hongo, Susan Wood's Asunder reveals a grown woman and fully mature poet facing grief and loss, longing and desire, and asking the questions with which we all must grapple: How does one go on living in the face of death and loss? What are the limits of knowledge in this world? To what extent can one ever know oneself and others? Wood has written an elegiac book full of ghosts, not only of old lovers, friends, and fellow poets, but of her own lost innocence.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Asunder (National Poetry Series) Saturday, November 14 2009.

• Added a contributor: Susan Wood: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Asunder (National Poetry Series) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• This morning she's there again, squatting like a squaw by the trashcan next to the Stop-n-Go, next to the laundry where I take our clothes, a whole soiled week's worth stuffed into the king-size Ralph Lauren paisley pillowcases Nine A.M., July in Houston and it's ninety degrees already and she's wearing a heavy gray sweatshirt tattered jeans, her skin the dark plum of pottery baked by the sun or brown with grime, it's hard to tell which.