Help in the Dark Season - Softcover

Suskin, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949342026 ISBN 13: 9781949342024

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

The poems in Help in the Dark Season expose lessons of adult and childhood trauma, relationship joys and failures, and the all-around hard work of true togetherness.

Help in the Dark Season explores the pathway of human love as it begins in the dark, moves into parental hands, transfers into to experiments of the heart, grows, breaks, and ultimately transforms us more than any other experience we withstand. Each poem walks us into Jacqueline Suskin’s world, where dreams and sacred visions are just as important as reality, where planet earth is an active character and spouse, and every attempt at love adds up as wisdom worth remembering. There are so many ways for us to access love; these poems map this personal process, uncovering the helpful tools and healing realizations that Suskin has gathered while conjuring up and relentlessly believing in love. Even when it hurts us the most and causes the worst confusion, even when it’s laughable and foolish, these poems aim to provide proof that human connection is crucial and always worth the risk.

About this title

About the Author

Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator based in Los Angeles. She is the author of three books, including The Edge of The Continent(Rare Bird 2018). Known for her project Poem Store, Suskin composes improvisational poetry for patrons who choose a topic in exchange for a unique verse. Poem Store has been her main occupation since 2009 and has taken her around the world. She was honored by Michelle Obama at the White House as a Turnaround Artist, and her work has been featured in New York Times, T Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and various other publications.

Review

With each poem a new spell is cast, for Jacqueline teaches us over and over again that there is indeed a light in the darkest seasons of our hearts, our communities, and our futures. 

―Marlee Grace, author of How to Not Always Be Working

Jacqueline writes about love not in the one-dimensional, heart-emoji sense but as it truly feels: mysterious, insane, ever shifting―a force that binds us to one another, to this earth, and to ourselves. 

―Hallie Bateman, author of What to Do When I’m Gone

Suskin has ascended to a heart surgeon’s level of ability in her poetry with this book, taking the blood of the matter and humanizing the cure with her words.

―Jena Malone, actor

Edition details

• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1949342026
• ISBN 13: 9781949342024
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 106