Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 #quotetote a connection will travel

a connection will travel

occasionally obscure

‘how not to get the blues while singing the blues’

We hear stories of a challenging childhood in a seaside town

fearless voice as she charts scars ranging from the post-hurricane Katrina days to losses close to the family and home

Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025</b> #quotetote a connection will travelDiane Seuss's signature voice audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms