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Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield

Voice/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield

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In Susan Azar Porterfield's Voice/Poems, readers will encounter various voices, not all of them sanguine. Some are testy, others reverential. Some are humorous, others not so much. The reader can expect a guide, but the guides may not bother to be consistent. Graceful and intimate, Voice/Poems plucks individual moments from the flow of time to show us how crazy remarkable our ordinary, day-in and day-out, lives are. We are a multitude and a solitude, "a glory, tiny veins in our fingers,/pulley of skin working index and thumb."

In these stunning, delicate poems, there is a fierce intelligence and a great tenderness. Susan Azar Porterfield is a master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem. Through her speakers, she offers us meditations on family, loss, and presents us with the beauty of her lush mind. I am thoroughly moved by Susan's poems, and I highly recommend this new collection. 

—Zeeshan Pathan
Author of The Minister of Disturbances

 

Voice/Poems is Susan Azar Porterfield's fourth book of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield was born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and a mother from rural Arkansas. She was the first in her family to attend college. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British literature and an M.A. in art from the Courtauld Institute in London. She received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and was featured on the Chicago WTTW 11, Arts Across Illinois program. She is a recipient of a Fulbright to Lebanon. 

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