Keeping Time - Softcover

Cleary, Suzanne

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887483631 ISBN 13: 9780887483639

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002

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The debut collection of poetry by Suzanne Cleary.

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"I have long been anticipating this first book and the chance to express how highly I value Suzanne Cleary's poetry. Her poems have a vigorous forward roll to them and are strung together by daring chains of association. It is refreshing to read a poet who wants to hide nothing, to turn over all the cards at once. High time she had a book, a place for her original voice to echo." BILLY COLLINS

Suzanne Cleary's poetry is rich and full and tactile. we find ourselves settling in, eager to eavesdrop on the events she illuminates and shadows with measured, seamless craft. And we come to an understanding of the unique talent that resides in this poet. Here is poetry that is immensely readable and enjoyable. DAN MASTERSON

Suzanne Cleary's Keeping Time gives us memory retrieved with intense clarity and understated grace. Whether she is contemplating a 1932 photograph of Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Detroit during a solar eclipse, recalling TV cooking shows, Gertrude Stein, her grandparents'lawn chairs, or films of the 1920s, her artistry keeps time at bay, bringing a well-tuned ear and quiet incandescence to the work. I salute this book with joy." COLETTE INEZ

About the Author:

SUZANNE CLEARY was born and raised in Binghamton, New York. She has a Master of Arts in Writing from Washington University and a Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Georgia Review, Massachusetts Review and other journals, and her book reviews have been published in Bloomsbury Review and Chelsea Review. She is Associate Professor of English at SUNY Rockland in Suffern, New York.

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