Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
Congratulations to Susanna for the feature of her poem, After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day, on former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's podcast, The Slowdown.
Wonderful interview with Susanna about Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Congratulations to Susanna for the feature of her poem, Welcome, on Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Congratulations to Susanna for her feature in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. The poem, After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day, is from Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Wonderful interview with Susanna about Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Congratulations to Susanna for the feature of her poem, Welcome, on Verse Daily. The poem is from her book, Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Congratulations to Susanna for her feature in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry. The poem, After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day, is from Travel Notes from the River Styx.
Praise for Travel Notes from the River Styx
In the earnest and beautiful Travel Notes from the River Styx, Susanna Lang peers into the tiny mirrors of a river’s current, the mirror her father cannot see himself in, the rearview mirror in which she spies sandhill cranes on an afternoon drive as she interrogates the natural and, at times, unnatural world. The result is a collection of double images: the moon a “copper coin with the sheen worn off,” “the flag [that] slips down the pole,” the country where her grandmother was born once called Russia, now Ukraine. As clear in its language as it is rich in argument, there’s something for everyone in Travel Notes, for travelers are exactly what this poet proclaims we are. It’s impossible to read this collection without wondering what doubles wait/lurk/reside beneath the skin of our bodies and of our world.
—Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
In the earnest and beautiful Travel Notes from the River Styx, Susanna Lang peers into the tiny mirrors of a river’s current, the mirror her father cannot see himself in, the rearview mirror in which she spies sandhill cranes on an afternoon drive as she interrogates the natural and, at times, unnatural world. The result is a collection of double images: the moon a “copper coin with the sheen worn off,” “the flag [that] slips down the pole,” the country where her grandmother was born once called Russia, now Ukraine. As clear in its language as it is rich in argument, there’s something for everyone in Travel Notes, for travelers are exactly what this poet proclaims we are. It’s impossible to read this collection without wondering what doubles wait/lurk/reside beneath the skin of our bodies and of our world.
—Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
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Susanna Lang is the author of Tracing the Lines (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013) and Even Now (The Backwaters Press, 2008). She has also published two collections of her translations of poems by Yves Bonnefoy, Words in Stone (University of Massachusetts Press, 1976) and The Origin of Language (George Nama, 1979). A two-time Hambidge Fellow and recipient of the Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Bethesda Writer's Center, she has published her poems and essays in such journals as New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Green Mountains Review, and Poetry East. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools.
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