Peripheral Vision
POETRY BY
Susan Kinsolving
Susan Kinsolving’s new book of poems Peripheral Vision, was published by Red Hen.
About Susan
Susan Kinsolving’s fourth book of poems is Peripheral Vision. Her previous books from Grove Press are The White Eyelash and Dailies & Rushes, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award. Among Flowers was published by Clarkson Potter at Random House.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has received critical acclaim from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Kirkus Reviews, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and Publishers Weekly.
Dailies & Rushes
“The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make many women think this book was written just for them.” –Susan Cheever
“Susan Kinsolving’s poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day’s figures and memory’s pattern. But she’s headed towards love: the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten herself–and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well–triumphantly there.” –J. D. McClatchy
Among Flowers
In this captivating mixed bouquet of art and letters, two contemporary talents take a fresh look at familiar flora– and transport lovers of poetry, painting, and flowers to a garden of delights and surprises.
Among her pointed observations in verse, poet Susan Kinsolving considers the tulip as history (“Tulipomania”), the eyesight of a celebrated gardener (“Gertrude Jekyll’s Myopia”), and the buoyant beauty of winter bloom (“Forcing Amaryllis”).