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Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms an...

Von der Kindheit in der Arbeiterklasse im ländlichen Michigan bis hin zu den gefährlichen Verlockungen von New York City: Virtuos bewegt sich Diane Seuss durch Gedanken und Zeit, Poesie und Punk, AIDS und Sucht, Glaube und Mutterschaft. Neben der eigenen Biographie spielen ihr Sohn, dessen Drogensucht und Selbstmordversuch, der frühe Tod des Vaters und eine distanzierte Mutter sowie ein an Aids verstorbener naher Freund eine Rolle. Trotz drast...

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A resplendent life in sonnets from the author of Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize"The sonnet, like poverty, teaches you what you can do / without, " Diane Seuss writes in this brilliant, candid work, her most personal collection to date. These poems tell the story of a life at risk of spilling over the edge of the page, from Seuss's working-class childhood in rural Michigan to the dangerous allures of New York City and back ...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeDiane Seuss's brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryStill life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned DreamsicleStill life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinderStill life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeetStill life with pork rinds pickled p...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry"Diane Seuss writes with the intensity of a soothsayer." -Laura KasischkeFor, having imagined your body one way I found it to be another way, it was yielding, but only as the Destroying Angel mushroom yields, its softness alliedwith its poison, and your legs were not petals or tendrils as I'd believed, but brazen, the deviant tentacles beneath the underskirt of a secret queen -from "Oh four-legged girl,...

Features a collection of poems that pay homage to the poet's roots in a place where the world hands you nothing and promises less, so that you are left to invent yourself or disappear. This title includes poems that recount and embody repeated acts of defiant self-creation in the face of despair, loss, and shame, and in the shadow of annihilation.