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Many poets translate or write literary biography and criticism.
But it is rare to find an accomplished poet who is also a major nonfiction writer. Susan Griffin is justly celebrated for her work as a feminist thinker whose prose books have examined such topics as war, the intertwined fate of the female body and the natural world, pornography and the complicity of violence and silence. Griffin avoids the snare of intellectual coldness that sometimes traps similarly heady writers such as Iris Murdoch or Cynthia Ozick, balancing her philosophical inclinations by giving open expression to deeply felt emotions. Perhaps the discipline of her poetry is what enables Griffin to soar. Griffin's poems waste nothing.