Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
2001 Open Competition Award
MUSE
Poems by Susan Aizenberg
“Clearly Susan Aizenberg has chosen
to serve the most demanding of the
nine muses, Clio, the muse of history.
Aizenberg honors her with rich and
vital poems of personal history, elegy,
and what could be called Lyrics of the
Long Haul—poems of the middle years,
poems which testify to the difficulties of
grace and the precious arrival of wisdom.
This is an elegant and sustained volume.
More importantly, it is an instructive
one.”—David Wojahn, author of Spirit
Cabinet and The Falling Hour
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“…Aizenberg forces us to confront disturbing
questions about how the aesthetic can be reconciled
with the ethical. She faces these questions
unflinchingly. They are the heart of her enterprise.
A real, three-dimensional human being emerges
out of the phrasing, the images, and the thoughts
of these memorable poems, shaped out of words
but entangled in the gritty detail of ordinary
life.”—Maura Stanton, author of Glacier Wine
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