I Want To Write an Honest Sentence

Susan M. Schultz

ISBN 10: 1584981369 / ISBN 13: 9781584981367

Published by Talisman House, Publishers April 2019, 2019

About this Item

used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners somewhat bumped. light scuffing to covers, bottom edge of text block may be lightly discolored from shelfwear. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Seller Inventory # 1340972

Bibliographic Details

• Title: I Want To Write an Honest Sentence
• Publisher: Talisman House, Publishers April 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584981369
• ISBN 13: 9781584981367
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • lit / fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Poetry. "The latest in Susan M. Schultz's ongoing, cumulative epic is as gorgeous, far out, and effective as anything she's written. I love her deep but lightly held learning, her big heart, and that she's quotidian and funny. Our great poet of grief, Schultz is the calm at the center of storms of sorrow, confusion, loss, politics. Her sentences are so good they can make you (me) cry: 'My response to the death of a poet is to imitate his sentences like Matt Morris throwing Darryl Kile's curve two days after Kile died. Style's a form of grieving, one that threads out like a shawl over bent shoulders.' This--like the whole book--has her distinctive smartness, precision, and just plain beautiful writing."--Elinor Nauen

About the Author

Susan M. Schultz has lived in and worked in Hawai'i since 1990. She is author of a critical book, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2005), and several books of poetry and poetic prose. Most recently, Singing Horse Press published DEMENTIA BLOG (2008), MEMORY CARDS: 2010-2011 SERIES (2011) and "SHE'S WELCOME TO HER DISEASE" [DEMENTIA BLOG, VOLUME TWO] (2013). Vagabond Press published Memory Cards: Dogen Series in their deciBels Series, and Talisman House, Publishers published MEMORY CARDS: THOMAS TRAHERNE SERIES (2016) and I WANT TO WRITE AN HONEST SENTENCE (2019). She founded Tinfish Press in 1995, and continues to publish experimental poetry from the Pacific. In 2014, she founded the Compassion Hui on her campus at UHM, which works to create better awareness of mental health issues. She is a life-long fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.