Suzanne Frischkorn's Blog, page 34

My Hero, the Outlaw of Amherst

"But why do we so badly need to have this poet paired off with someone? Why do we need to make a failure in love — and because Dickinson was single, failure is always assumed — the explanation for her art? We don't consider "Walden" or "Moby Dick" or "Leaves of Grass" the products of amorous psychopathology. Yet the notion lingers that Dickinson's poetry was a disturbed response to some

The Involuntary Relinquishing of the Self

But I think some intensity of awareness must be lost, since it depends on contrast. And that intensity is impoverishment's aftermath, and blessing: what succeeds temporary darkness, what succeeds the void or the desert, is not the primary gift of the world but the essential secondary gift of knowledge, a sense of the significance of the original gift, the scale of our privilege.--Louise Gluck,

Julio Valdez

The title of my exhibition makes reference to the second line of the popular poem about the Dominican Republic "There is a Country in the World," by Pedro Mir.Poetry and music have always nurtured my creative visual explorations. Reflecting on the sentiment, the general "mood" of this particular "national" poem, helps me to ground the subject matter in a more open, universal dialogue with the

Sweet!

Karen Weyant's review of Girl on a Bridge is featured in the Best of Red Room.

New Anti-

Sampson Starkweather with two transcontemporations of Max Jacob.

Karen J. Weyant reviews Girl on a Bridge

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. ....

Bad Writing - Official Trailer

_____Thanks to Pamela Hart for this!

WTF is poetry?

If you want simple answers, poetry is not the place to look. If you like your language literal, poetry is not the place to look. If you like all your time to be productive, you may as well skip poetry. But if you want to be more present in the world and your body, if you want to rediscover your inner life, if you want to enjoy being alone or explore feelings our culture doesn't support, you may

Spring

I just finished Paul Guest's Memoir

One More Theory About HappinessI am stunned by its beauty, I am stunned to the point that I am unable to express myself. Highly recommended reading.