The Penultimate Suitor

by Mary Leader

In The Penultimate Suitor Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self-conßagration. Each poem turns upon and returns to the infuriating and glorious correlations between love and art. Learning to love, learning to make art, trying to make beauty, trying to be a beauty—:all these efforts call for passionate explorations in the schools of art and love.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Mary Bartlet Leader was the author of two novels, Triad: A Novel of the Supernatural (1972) and Salem’s Children (1979). Triad was the inspiration behind the popular Fleetwood Mac song "Rhiannon".

Leader died on April 27, 2004, in Mequon, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin where she had been a long time resident.