[Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions.]
Diane Seuss
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- May 1, 2021
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“[Here on this edge]” from frank: sonnets.
Copyright © 2021 by Diane Seuss.
Used with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org
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Gabrielle Montesanti
Gabrielle Montesanti
Diane Seuss’s most recent collection is frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021). Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, (Graywolf Press 2018) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf Press 2015) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Seuss is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2021 recipient of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was raised by a single mother in rural Michigan, which she continues to call home.
“The lightning intelligence of Diane Seuss’s poems strikes equally the lavish external world and the harrowed interior. A brilliant and devastating account of the making and survival of a poet, frank: sonnets has a relentless, lambent urgency; by its final pages I had to remind myself to breathe.”
—Garth Greenwell
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