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Poetry. Many of these poems are set in the mid-twentieth century and feature such personae as writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams and photographer Roman Vishniac, as well as less-public figures in Brooklyn, Nebraska, and elsewhere, all of whom confront the wounds of love, family, history, and time.
"In poem after poem," David Jauss writes, Aizenberg "reveals an astonishingly wide-ranging and deeply empathetic imagination, not to mention the eye of a painter and the ear of a musician."
"Aizenberg's vision is clear, her language exact, and her music is perfectly pitched," writes Betsy Sholl, a past poet laureate of Maine. "These are keenly intelligent poems navigating the distance and circuitous route between grief and its redemption."
Poet Kathy Fagan writes, "Aizenberg's Quiet City reminds us how the wounds of history keep on wounding both in our homes and the larger world."
About the author
Susan Aizenberg's newest collection of poems is
Quiet City (BkMk Press, May 2015). Aizenberg also is the author of two previous collections,
Muse (Crab Orchard Poetry Series/SIUP) and Peru (Take Three/2: AGNI New Poets Series/Graywolf) and co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of
The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia UP). Her poems have appeared in many journals, including
Prairie Schooner,
Blackbird,
Spillway, The Journal,
Midwest Quarterly Review,
Hunger Mountain,
Alaska Quarterly Review, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, and
Spoon River Poetry Review, and have been reprinted in several anthologies, among them
Ley Lines (Wilfrid Laurier UP) and
Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation (Etruscan). Her fellowships and awards include the Nebraska Book Award and Virginia Commonwealth University's Levis Prize for
Muse, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner award. She currently teaches at Creighton University, where she is Professor of Creative Writing and English.
