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The latest collection from award-winning Cuban American poet Suzanne Frischkorn, Whipsaw delves into the culture of violence in the United States, the Anthropocene, and family history. Poems of place and climate grief are braided with the harrowing experience of motherhood in the time of 'me too', police brutality, and mass shootings. Through lyric, erasure, and origin story Whipsaw bears witness in the age of anxiety. Along the way Frischkorn observes the forest, its ecology and its wildlife, as it transforms through the seasons. In lucid images and lyrical language she reveals the resilience of the natural world and reflects on the wisdom it has for humanity. Voice driven, defiant, elegiac in mood, yet not without hope: 'Do you remember the morning after the ice storm? / How the wind through the branches / sounded like the parting of bead curtains?' Throughout Whipsaw the wonders of the forest provide solace.

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Suzanne Frischkorn is a Cuban-American poet and essayist. She is the author of four poetry books including Whipsaw (Anhinga Press, 2024), Fixed Star ( JackLeg Press, 2022), Girl on a Bridge, Lit Windowpane (both from Main Street Rag Press), and five chapbooks. She's the recipient of The Writer's Center Emerging Writers Fellowship for her book Lit Windowpane, the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, and a 2023 SWWIM Residency Award at The Betsy. She is an editor at $ -Poetry Is Currency, and serves on the Terrain editorial board. She lived and wrote in Connecticut for many years and currently resides in New York.

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