Entering the House of Awe
By: Susanna Childress
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9781936970001
Work titles: Poems
Description: Readers familiar with Susanna Childress's Jagged with Love will recognize her distinctive voice in these poems: her nerve, her honest, quirky, irreverent, immediate and embodied yearning that rushes, wordy, right up to the ragged margins! In this second collection, new formal approaches bring breath and space to the lines, even delicacy sometimes, but these fine poems move with no less urgency because they are compelled by her signature quest for truthfulness. This search refuses perfectionism and mere aestheticism, yet admits beauty en route, as Childress claims, There needs to be no right word / There needs to be a wide hole / a whole mouth / where the right word / isn't--Julia Spicher Kasdorf.