Susan A. Wright, poet

​"In this debut collection, Susan A. Wright confronts death, memory, trauma, and survival with honesty and a clear sense of language’s power to stand against pain. These poems move from the intimate—graveside farewells, childhood loss, the ache of love’s absence—to the infinite, imagining grief as a force that spans galaxies but still can't seem to leave the body or memory.  Shrines of emotional edge, altars of fragile recollection, and the world’s manifold havocs are named with both reverence and resistance."
 

—Dave Harrity, author of Our Father in the Year of the Wolf