Meme

by Susan Wheeler

Acclaimed poet Susan Wheeler, whose last individual collection predicted the spiritual losses of the economic collapse, turns her attention to the most intimate of subjects: the absence or loss of love.aA meme is a unit of thought replicated by imitation; examples of memes, Richard Dawkins wrote, OC are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.OCO Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go viral. What could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children?aWheeler reconstructs her motherOCOs voiceOCodown to its cynicism and its mid twentieth-century midwestern vernacularOCoin OC The Maud Poems, OCO a voice that takes a more aggressive, vituperative turn in OC The DevilOCoorOCoThe Introjects.OCO In the bookOCOs third long sequence, a generational inheritance feeds cultural transmission in OC The Split.OCO A set of variations on losses and break-upsOCowildly, darkly funny throughout and, in places, devastatingly sadOCoOC The SplitOCO brings WheelerOCOs lauded inventiveness, wit, and insight to the profound loss of love. One read, and the meme OC Should I stay or should I go?OCO will be altered in your head forever.a"

Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2012

About the author

Susan Wheeler is the creator of Victoria Rose and her compatriots of Holly Pond Hill, an exquisitely detailed watercolour world of gentle creatures.

From her earliest days growing up in New England, Susan Wheeler explored the outdoors to discover the secret places where animals lived. Here she first imagined tiny brick cottages and moss-covered tree houses inhabited by woodland creatures. With her careful brushwork -- some brushes only a single bristle wide -- Susan creates a nostalgic wonderland in incredible detail, one we would all love to enter if only we could find the magic door in the hedgerow! Inspired by the beauty she finds all around her, she believes that the purpose of art is to reflect the glory and goodness of God, the original Artist who painted the world with love and life. And Susan desires, most ardently, to pass this beauty along to everyone who pauses over her work.

Ms. Wheeler resides in Fredericksburg, Texas, where she lives with her husband, Mark, their four children, and their numerous pets and farm animals. In her free time, she runs her very own Bed & Breakfast named after her magical fantasy world.