OPEN
OPEN, the newest book of poetry by Susan Read Cronin, explores issues of love, life, death and family. Sometimes written through the eyes of a child, Cronin’s poems remind the reader of what it is like to try to make sense of the world around us. Weaving steadily between dark and light, her poems parry with their swords of wit and thrust with humor and twists. A highly approachable collection of well-wrought poems destined to be pulled off the bookshelf again and again.
Here's a review by writer, Peter Darling:
This is a collection of lovely, focused, short poems that are almost alarming in their intensity. They're about everything — death, loss, doubt, the push-pull of family, and most of all, the moments during the day-to-day that, if you're paying attention, stop you in your tracks. Susan Read Cronin writes about things with a remarkable lack of sentimentality, zeroing in on things that are felt but left unsaid, longed-for but undone, sometimes had but not wanted. Spare with her language and incredibly generous with her memories, these poems are elegant, polished, and delightfuly wry and witty occasionally, and like Susan herself, contain a big dose of New England. They're also surprising, and extraordinarily varied in voice, length, language, all of it. Susan writes poems you can read in a moment, and will reflect on for days.
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Here's a review by writer, Peter Darling:
This is a collection of lovely, focused, short poems that are almost alarming in their intensity. They're about everything — death, loss, doubt, the push-pull of family, and most of all, the moments during the day-to-day that, if you're paying attention, stop you in your tracks. Susan Read Cronin writes about things with a remarkable lack of sentimentality, zeroing in on things that are felt but left unsaid, longed-for but undone, sometimes had but not wanted. Spare with her language and incredibly generous with her memories, these poems are elegant, polished, and delightfuly wry and witty occasionally, and like Susan herself, contain a big dose of New England. They're also surprising, and extraordinarily varied in voice, length, language, all of it. Susan writes poems you can read in a moment, and will reflect on for days.
$17.00 includes shipping and handling within 48 contiguous states.