Poetry. Holocaust Studies. Each poem in this marvelous collection is special and perfect in itself. Appearing in this almost devastatingly emotional work are a variety of people in different countries, times and tragic situations. Susan Terris' unique craft and vision illuminate and intensify the poetry until it goes far beyond the original intent and then we take over. This book must be read by everyone with a conscience, a sense of history, a need to know. Whether it is an adult who experienced the Holocaust or knew of its existence or a young person on the edge of knowing, this book is a gift and a revelation (Ruth Daigon). A very powerful collection (Robert Sward). Susan Terris lives in San Francisco. She has had 21 books of fiction published and her poetry is widely published in such magazines as Antioch Review, Calyx and Nimrod.

Eye of the Holocaust

Literature & Fiction

Terris, Susan

Poetry

Arctos Press

Poetry. Janell Moon's is an absolutely original voice. With wicked humor and a compassionate eye, Janell deftly tackles the conundrums of family, lesbian love, aging. She brings to her writing the raw, risky honesty that only a strong poet can. Roaming from her girlhood in a small Ohio town, to dreams after a friend's suicide, to the tricky balance on a San Francisco hillside, she confronts the fractures of identity and how we make our place in the world --Dorthy Wall. When morning broke, there was a moment/ when light and dark shone in balance/ and if we really focused,/ we could see what was left,/ what was worthy. (The Burning).

The Mouth of Home

Moon, Janell

Poetry. Art. SEEING/PERCEPTION contains poems by Ann O'Hanlon and photographs by both Dick and Ann O'Hanlon -- artists, travelers, and teachers who were mentors to an entire community of artists and students from their Mill Valley, Calif. center for Sight and Insight. From Ann and Dick'O and their place I learned, for example, ways of looking that I have not ceased to think about -- Wendell Berry.

Seeing/Perception: Looking at the World Through an Artist's Eyes

Arts & Photography

O’Hanlon, Ann

O'Hanlon, Dick

History & Criticism

Poetry. "A real survey of modern poetry--in a generous variety of voices and styles, and each poem seems the best of its kind. There are so many terrific poems that it would be difficult to name what moved me most"--Ruth Daigon, author of The Moon Inside. "It's a beautiful collection"--Li-Young Lee.

Runes: Mystery

Poetry. This book of new poems by David St. John includes fourteen vibrant photographs by Lance Patigian. One of the finest poetic craftsmen of his generation, David St. John has recevied regular and lavish praise from his contemporaries. Speaking of his poetry, Robert Hass has said, "It is not just gorgeous, it is go-for-broke gorgeous. It is made out of sentences, sweeping through and across his meticulous verse stanzas, that could have been written, for their velvet and intricate suavity, by Henry James. But that doesn't quite describe them, since they are also full, almost past ripeness, of a floating, sometimes painful, sometimes wistful, intense, dark and silvery eroticism that feels as if it comes out of some cross between late nineteeth-century symbolist lushness--vague and specific at once--and the kind of '60s and '70s European film that talked about eroticism with a wistfulness so intense that it seemed experience and the melancholy recollection of experience were the same th

Prism

John, David St.

Poetry. Even as "sailors know a storm/ is close when all their knots have drawn tight," so these taut, intricate poems enact the dramatic encounter of opposing forces: high Romantic flight meets gravity's tow, Chagall's floating figures ride the tornado, fire exacts its inevitable toll as the dramer awakens--eloquent, unrepentant"--Eleanor Wilner. "Susan Terris's poetry is exquisite and extraordinary. Her poems exhibit an intellectual verve and a linguistic brilliance that are remarkable; what is more, this collection is both powerful and heart-breaking. There are few poets who can so deftly orchestrate the dramatic dilemmas of the daily with the profound wisdoms of the larger world. Restrained, wise and compelling, this book continues to burn long after it has left the reader's hands"--David St. John.

Fire Is Favorable To the Dreamer

Poetry. Art. Edited by C.B. Follett and Susan Terris. Featuring work by:Li-Young Lee, Kim Addonizio, Jane Hirschfield, Polina Barskova, Kyoko Uchida, Lucille Clifton, Nazneen Zafar, GTimothy Gordon, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Deborah DeNicola, Donald Lev, Barry Ballard, gabrielle jesiolowski, Terry Ehret, G.C. Waldrep, Oliver de la Paz, Tsitsi Jaji, Peter Meinke, Marge Piercy, Quincy Scott Jones, Esther Lee, Elizabeth Swados, Mary Cahill, Ilya Kaminsky, Rina Ferrarelli, Sarah Maclay, Joel H. Vega, and many others.

Runes: Memory

Poetry. California Interest. The New Yorker calls his poetry, "Expressive, gestural, and image laden, St. John's lines fairly hum with the pleasure of their making." W. S. Merwin identifies St. John's work as that of "...an urgent sensibility and a true ear." And John Ashbery writes, "Like the films of Godard and Rohmer, David St. John's poems evoke cryptic encounters in an unltramodern, often European setting. The mood is one of pain, tension, and urgency, but there is finally the experience and pleasure of what Mr. St. John calls 'the most graceful of misunderstandings.'"

The Window

St. John, David

Poetry. "'Sometimes safety is unbearable,' declares one of these sharp, and sharpened poems--it's a theme that informs the whole collection, as its many voices, all equally sure, equally exacting and precise, take stock of the real situation of the women Terris sees around her. In her intimate social examination, Terris also does something entirely new with the confessional poem, opening it to previously unexplored territory with her vivid, idiosyncratic language and hauntingly honest imagery. The whole is eye-opening and refreshingly frank"--Cole Swensen.

the Homelessness of Self

Poetry. Anthology. CLOUD VIEW POETS contains one poem each from the eighty-one poets who participated in the master classes led by David St. John. The master classes were sessions in which the poets gathered, fifteen at a time, in Lyn Follett's living room on Cloud View Road to read poems of the masters and offer their own. The book has been organized into four sections according to theme and the way in which they interact. Poets include Dan Bellm, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Molly Fisk, Leza Lowitz, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennie Orvino, Zack Rogow, Susan Terris, Anthony Russell White, and many other new and upcoming writers.

Cloud View Poets: From Master Classes with David St. John: An Anthology

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