Poetry
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Bardo
"Suzanne Paola's poetry, as represented in Bardo, is to my mind truly remarkable, even heroic. Again and again, she takes on subjects and experiences many writers would find unmanageable. She not only treats these difficult matters successfully; she transforms them, triumphantly, into music, into the most exacting examples of her craft, into a dance of language and emotion whose authority we can not only acknowledge but rejoice in."—David Young "Bardo is a terrific collection of poems. After the deluge of prose books pairing Tao and physics, Zen and VW maintenance, it's a special pleasure to have it all done now with a poet's bounty and accuracy: Suzanne Paola, freestyling snappily down the line between scholarship and sass, combines Tibetan Buddhism with the drugged-out rocked-up boomer American landscape, and brings the full bravura energy of her vision (part classical Rome, part glitzy Caesar's Palace) to bear upon all of our invaluable, fractured lives."—Albert Goldbarth "In Bardo, a god-haunted poet scrabbles for the sublime in the debris of language, the rubbish of visions. Instructed by Tibetan Buddhism, by Homer, and by the Book of Revelations, Suzanne Paola's poems glimmer with verbal inventiveness but accept the discipline of clear sight and human boundaries. A flamboyant and searching book."—Rosanna Warren Suzanne Paola is associate professor of English at Western Washington University and the author of two books of poetry, Petitioner and Glass. She lives with her husband and daughter in Bellingham, Washington. |
October
1998
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