Plotting Temporality
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ABOUT Suzanne Roberts
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ISBN: 978-1-931247-46-7 “Sensual and unabashed, Suzanne Roberts’ poems draw you into a world where “it isn’t enough to walk over/ the bridge. You must/ look under it, see how/wind distorts your reflection.” Roberts walks with you “in the space between dripping ferns,” takes you where “the leaving becomes/part of the other world, / of sleep, of dreams,” where “dawn unties/ the earth from sky.” Nothing to You is an arresting collection of poems where the poet’s gaze is unblinking even as she admits, “I should look away now, but don’t.” “Suzanne Roberts weaves together restlessness, travel experiences and a healthy strand of suspicion, creating a tapestry both intriguing and mysterious. Often conversational with suggestive language, rife with images yet understated, Roberts’ poems promise adventures both physical and mental, grand and private, cloaked in an atmosphere of spoiled romance and esthetic longing.”
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Plotting Temporality
“Suzanne Roberts’ poems in Plotting Temporality are songs of the body, the erotic imperative of flesh, the brutal finality of bone. These haunting necessities are exquisitely exploredin a poem such as ‘Skeleton,’ where lovemaking takes place within the ‘jutted pelvis,’ where the lover’s hands, cruel and tender, grasp a figure ‘stripped clean without the canvas of skin,’ a figure urgent, sensual, and grotesque. Roberts’ poems forcefully invoke ‘our night, our moon, but never, / never our dawn,’ their language striving to shape and illuminate our haunted movements—a caress, a spouse’s hand pushed away, a figure approaching from the —Gaylord Brewer
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