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The poems in Flying Yellow cry out for the day just out of reach, the day which unaccountably may in a moment or a season let down a joyful light into the obscurity of human trial. A hopeful belief in heaven and the end of suffering colors these profoundly spiritual, often uneasy, poems. Carried by musical currents that shape her work, Rhodes ventures into what she calls "the good dark stuff" of experience--good because the dark is where Christ went, willingly, to take it captive. Whether probing the meaning of her own personal traumas or those of historical figures like Mary Rowlandson and Dorothy Bradford; whether peeling back layers of habitual sight to see the natural world of robins and ghost crabs and shorelines more truly, she brings the reader alongside in each surprising encounter to see the possibilities of light.
About the author
Suzanne Underwood Rhodes lives, writes, and teaches in the mountains of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is the author of a poetry collection,
What a Light Thing, This Stone, and two chapbooks
. Her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared, as well as her essays, in numerous journals and anthologies. Rhodes teaches poetry workshops at the Muse Writers Center in Virginia, and for other groups of students ages five through eighty.
