Memory Cards: Dogen Series

by Susan M. Schultz

I started writing memory cards in the late 1990s, and have done so in fits and starts since. Originally, the prose poems were extracted from a manuscript that didn't work. Then, once the operating premise (writing poems incorporating memory that fit an index card or time card) was discovered, I wrote new ones. The first set was Memory Cards & Adoption Papers from Potes & Poets Press, 2001. I have always been obsessed with memory—my own, others', and public history—so these cards provide a kinetic container for memory work of various kinds. They complement my other work, which concerns forgetting (Alzheimer's/dementia).

36 pages, Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Leonard · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short collection of rather mysterious prose poems. But mystery in literature as in much of life, is very enriching, so I'm going to hang onto this one for a while.