Superior Packets

Superior PacketsBy Susie Timmons Description Reviews 35 years worth of poems by Susie Timmons, long heralded by her peers in New York such as Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles, previously only available in small run editions. Her poems are witty, smart, and quick, with a pleasantly surprising clarity and freshness. Perhaps most distinctive about Timmonss work is its refusal to find its gravity in sadness but rather by way of an intimacy between poem and

By Gillian Conoley

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These poems are extreme

these poems exist in a space somewhere between ekphrasis and feminist fan fiction that inhabits the voices

Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining

by Mary Ruefle

The book’s form

Incongruities and retrofittings provide Nakayasu with her comic material

and advise academic colleagues

again and again

by Timothy Donnelly

Wier’s lines have always had a wild whitewater crash to them