Asunder

by Susan Wood

Chosen for the National Poetry Series by Garrett Hongo, Susan Wood's Asunder reveals a grown woman and fully mature poet facing grief and loss, longing and desire, and asking the questions with which we all must grapple: How does one go on living in the face of death and loss? What are the limits of knowledge in this world? To what extent can one ever know oneself and others? Wood has written an elegiac book full of ghosts, not only of old lovers, friends, and fellow poets, but of her own lost innocence.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Anto ϵ( 'Θ' )϶ · Rating 2 out of 5]

did not do it for me

[Marguerite Hargreaves · Rating 4 out of 5]

Arresting images and evocative emotions from the most mundane stuff. Susan Wood writes, "Maybe poems are no consolation now, when the real century gasps for breath and stumbles to its grave." I'd beg to differ.