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Cleary, Suzanne

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ISBN 10: 0887484611 ISBN 13: 9780887484612

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007

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Suzanne Cleary writes poems of lyric clarity and narrative complexity, those in her first book Keeping Time described by Billy Collins as “strung together by daring chains of association.” This new collection explores work and art and time and faith, wild and serious poems that somehow manage to be great fun.

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"Suzanne Cleary writes about the American sublime, the ways in which our commonplace lives achieve glamour and transcendence in an Airstream trailer or dinner conversation with friends, in an encounter with a famous jazz singer or in the durable habit's of a grandparent's immigrant speech. We are constantly intersecting with history in small but important ways, unforgettable ways, as they are recorded by this poet. One poem here, one of the best, is entitled 'True.' 'True' could be the title of every poem in this book. Cleary's is a genuine lyric gift as rich as it is rare." --Mark Jarman

About the Author:

SUZANNE CLEARY was born and raised in Binghamton, New York. Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her first book, Keeping Time, was published by Carnegie Mellon. Blue Cloth won the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival Prize in 2004. Associate Professor of English at SUNY Rockland, she has taught at The Frost Place Poetry Festival and also reviews books for Bloomsbury Review.

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