I want a book of poems to act like a genuine book and not just a miscellany of the poet's most recent work willy-nillied between covers. Susan Elbe's The Map of What Happened is just such a thoughtful, integrated collection, lovingly (and, I'm betting, painstakingly) assembled, occupying a space/time continuum all its own from beginning to end. This book is so much more than a sum of its estimable parts; there is such palpable life here because there are so many human lives in its pages. And this poet has a real stake in showing us the various ways in which they honestly matter. By the sheer power of her down-to-earth empathy and the resilience of her language, she makes her people our people, too. David Clewell, from the Judge's statement

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: 09/01/2013
ISBN: 9781935218319
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d