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| place of birth | United States | |||||||||
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| website | http://www.susanrich.net | |||||||||
| genre | Poetry | |||||||||
| influences | Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Rilke, Celan, Neruda | |||||||||
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about this author
Susan Rich is the author of Cures Include Travel and The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World published by White Pine Press. She is the winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry and the Peace Corps Writers Award. Interview with Elizabeth Glixman at http://www.eclectica.org/v9n4/... Rich teaches at Highline Community College outside Seattle, WA where she is also a co-editor at Floating Bridge Press and Board Member of Whit Press. She has worked in Bosnia, Niger, Gaza, and South Africa on behalf of human rights. |
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books by Susan Richcombine editionsavg rating: 4.50 | 12 ratings | 3 distinct works
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06/08
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The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover) by Steven Galloway bookshelves: currently-reading, just-read |
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read in June, 2008
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"I was skeptical of a book written about Sarajevo by someone who neither lived through the seige nor who is a Bosnian, but I was wrong. The book is a lyrical song to a city l love very much. Clearly, the author has done enormous research and spent tim...more
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09/30
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Miscreants: Poems (Hardcover) by James Hoch bookshelves: currently-reading |
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09/30
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Paul Celan: Selections (Poets for the Millennium) by Paul Celan bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Susan Rich said "yes" to attending the event: Writing It Real Writers Conference . date: June 27, 2008 07:00PM location: Port Townsend WA, Port Townsend, WA, United States description: Come hear me as well as Sheila Bender, Meg Files, and Jack Hefron. The reading is part of the conference but you are welcome to attend just the reading! | |
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The Cellist of Sarajevo (Hardcover) by Steven Galloway bookshelves: currently-reading, just-read |
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Susan Rich said:
"I was skeptical of a book written about Sarajevo by someone who neither lived through the seige nor who is a Bosnian, but I was wrong. The book is a lyrical song to a city l love very much. Clearly, the author has done enormous research and spent tim...more
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People of the Book: A Novel (Hardcover) by Geraldine Brooks bookshelves: just-read |
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read in June, 2008
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"No one can argue that Geraldine Brooks had done her research on the history of this Haggadah. I find it interesting that two novels about Sarajevo are just published and popular at the moment (The Cellist of Sarajevo is the other). I've worked in Bos...more
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback) by Barack Obama |
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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (Paperback) by Miles Harvey bookshelves: just-read |
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read in January, 2008
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" I liked the way this book took in different genres from whodunit to cartography, memoir to map collecting. I haven't read anything that combined so many different threads of a story like this before. I think it may have to do with the fact that the ...more
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Duende: Poems (Paperback) by Tracy K. Smith bookshelves: just-read |
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read in October, 2007
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"Smith's work is marked by intelligence, heart, and spiritual questioning. The mix of personal concerns with the larger world appears seamless. I return to this book again and again.
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Snow (Paperback) by Orhan Pamuk bookshelves: to-read |
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Jazz Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Kevin Young |
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Susan Rich's groups (recent posts)
¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry.
Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more
A Place for Poets
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This group is for those who believe in the cross-cultural necessity and permanence of poetry. Share and discuss your favourite poets and the writing p...more
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A group for readers and writers of MiPOesias Magazine.
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PNW book lovers unite!
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