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Girl on a Bridge: Poems
by
Suzanne Frischkorn (Goodreads Author)
Suzanne Frischkorn is a fierce and fearless poet. In "Girl on a Bridge," she first upends our dainty notions of girlhood and then leads us into the wilderness of violence, madness, fear, and love -- and does so with beauty and tenderness.
--Julianna Baggott, author of "Lizzie Borden in Love," and "Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees"...more
--Julianna Baggott, author of "Lizzie Borden in Love," and "Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees"...more
Hardcover, Poetry, 57 pages
Published
March 25th 2010
by Main Street Rag Publishing Co.
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From the title alone, you know that Girl on a Bridge will involve danger, personal transition, or perhaps lost youth. Suzanne Frischkorn's second poetry collection contains many of these standard elements, yet so much more. Frischkorn's challenges the weighty assumption of what "a girl on a bridge" means beyond suicide thoughts or coming of age. The subjects in her poems are everyday girls and women who are dealing with complicated relationships from their past or their present. These ...more
The women found in Suzanne Frischkorn's Girl on a Bridge, are strong, smart, sexy, and...just a little lost. This was my initial reaction when I read Frischkorn's second collection of poetry. When I went back through this past weekend to re-read my favorite poems, I found that I had this same reaction. Plus, I discovered that I wanted to be these women.
Frischkorn opens her book with a poem titled "Great Lash" -- in many ways a poem that is the perfect prologue to this w...more
Frischkorn opens her book with a poem titled "Great Lash" -- in many ways a poem that is the perfect prologue to this w...more
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Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Girl On A Bridge (2010), and Lit Windowpane (2008) both from Main Street Rag Publishing. In addition she is the author of five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo (2008). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Ecotone, Indiana Review, Margie, Poet Lore, Verse Daily and Conversation Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems, p...more
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