Iridium: & Selected Poems 1986-2009 [Paperback]

PRAISE FOR SUZANNE GARDINIER

“Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats’s words, every rift is laden with ore.”
—Adrienne Rich

“Dialogue with the Archipelago is full of private mythology Suzanne Gardinier grafts on to matters modern, Biblical, and ancient. She has invented a line appropriate to her poetry ruled by a two-faced moon that keeps and holds every word precious and resonant, broad enough to hold the surf of history crashing with an emotional sweep, depth and beauty few contemporary poets can provide. Of course, her moon makes for breakers mysteriously regular and irregular. Of course, Suzanne Gardinier’s mind to her ‘a kingdom is.’”
—Stanley MossA collection of poems “broad enough to hold the surf of history crashing with an emotional sweep, depth and beauty few contemporary poets can provide”IRIDIUM
Kiln
Night Journey
Dancer
Last Night
Chariot
Iridium
Jerusalem
SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009
Voyage
The Stones
Letter to My Mother
This Land
The International Meteorological Committee Reports
Harmonica
Tonight
Two Girls
FROM The New World
To the City of Fire / If I forget you let my sleep dwindle
To Peace / When will you come The days are long the nights
Refugees / Every night she dreams of departure
Blues / Come here baby wrap your arms around
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Although it stands between the kidnappers
Where Blind Sorrow Is Taught To See / Rain shines black where the red-and-white-light-laced
To Peace / Peace I have feared you hated you scuffed dirt
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Dear Amy At last a moment I miss
To the City of Fire / Here is soot Today it is all I have
At School / Excuse me the teacher says Where are you going
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Tonight I woke again afraid
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