Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025 #quotetote using the geographical site of

using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history

history and poetic influences with the contemporary queer experience

the runaway

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

Merging resistance and poetry

Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Spring 2025</b> #quotetote using the geographical site ofDiane 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