About the Author:
Susana H. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology. Her photos have appeared in Blue Hour Magazine, pacificREVIEW, and San Pedro River Review, among others. Author of several chapbooks, her Slapering Hol Press chapbook, THE SCOTTISH CAFÉ, was published in a dual-language version, Kawiarnia Szkocka, by Poland's Opole University Press. Her previous books of poetry are: Salem In Séance (WordTech Editions), Elvis Presley's Hips & Mick Jagger's Lips (Anaphora Literary Press), and Earth and Below (Anaphora Literary Press); she is most recently the author of 4 RMS W VU (Mayapple Press, 2014).
Review:
The poems in 4 Rms w Vu, like most of Susana H. Case’s work, demand full participation no watching here that we live in their apartments, wear their clothes, down to the "denier nylon." At the end we re a little shaken, but a lot wiser. Susana is a daring poet, not so much for the sake of issuing challenges, but more to the cause of poetry itself; she defies one to bring the whole body and soul, and deny no part of this experience called living. --Mervyn Taylor, author of The Waving Gallery
4 Rms w Vu is a poetic open house in which Susana H. Case guides us through the rooms of the heart. In poems addressed to husbands, lovers and parents, Case shows how the past, the curious details of daily life and wonderings about the future all weave together endlessly, how nothing is ever really lost — not a loved one, not a hurt — if you can remember. In her moving new collection, we see how this poet’s art is an act of holding on in language that is sure-footed. --Matthew Thorburn, author of This Time Tomorrow
Susana H. Case’s 4 Rms w Vu superimposes an intricate map of a lover’s mind on the floorplan of a New York City apartment in poems that never shrink from the “weep and stink of everyday brutality.” Moving from room to room and year to year, 4 Rms w Vu passes through meditations on life with dogs, the metaphysics of lipstick, and the peculiarly American primal scene of the isolating, moving, colliding car, in square footage inhabited by a woman with the brio to ask, as final prayer — “Let me blow a lot of fuses.” --B. K. Fischer, author of St. Rage s Vault
4 Rms w Vu is a poetic open house in which Susana H. Case guides us through the rooms of the heart. In poems addressed to husbands, lovers and parents, Case shows how the past, the curious details of daily life and wonderings about the future all weave together endlessly, how nothing is ever really lost — not a loved one, not a hurt — if you can remember. In her moving new collection, we see how this poet’s art is an act of holding on in language that is sure-footed. --Matthew Thorburn, author of This Time Tomorrow
Susana H. Case’s 4 Rms w Vu superimposes an intricate map of a lover’s mind on the floorplan of a New York City apartment in poems that never shrink from the &ldquoweep and stink of everyday brutality.” Moving from room to room and year to year, 4 Rms w Vu passes through meditations on life with dogs, the metaphysics of lipstick, and the peculiarly American primal scene of the isolating, moving, colliding car, in square footage inhabited by a woman with the brio to ask, as final prayer — &ldquoLet me blow a lot of fuses.” --B. K. Fischer, author of St. Rage s Vault
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