Mapping a Life

Author:   Susan Moss
Publisher:   Antrim House
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9781943826926


Pages:   86
Publication Date:   01 October 2021
Format:   Paperback
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In Mapping a Life, Susan Moss travels widely and passionately through man-made and natural terrain and through realms of the heart. Such leaps of faith, such chances she takes! In poems whose language is vigorous and vivid, she takes us with her every inch of the way.

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Author:   Susan Moss
Publisher:   Antrim House
Imprint:   Antrim House
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.136kg
ISBN:  

9781943826926


ISBN 10:   1943826927
Pages:   86
Publication Date:   01 October 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The many facets of one woman's global travels--not limited to the perceptible--have been stunningly re-created here by Susan Moss, a poet of uncommon acuity and insight. Her solitary walk across a rural path fringed. . .by mushrooms and speckled stones quickly expands into a world tour that includes a side-trip to an ancient forest she calls time's arboretum --and again at a precipice of memories, encompassing destinations as disparate as Africa, Tokyo, and the south of Spain. Such wonders--along with affectionate glimpses of fellow travelers who accompany the poet from time to time--make this a journey well worth taking. -Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2009-2010 Susan Moss's vividly imagistic poems embrace the flow of a richly lived life, mapping out the progression of each stage she has witnessed, from the exuberant passions of youth through the meditations of maturity leading to the wisdom we all hope to achieve, a peace that is the still point within ourselves. In the end, all comes down to savoring each segment of life upon the map and understanding through good times and bad that one can only find that still point if you keep walking past the bitter stones of hope. . .It is in the doing, every inch inhaled that one achieves it. This book is a gem to be held in your hands so that you can study every facet, allowing an understanding of a map of life that encompasses all of us. -Jared Smith, Author of Shadows Within the Roaring Fork and That's How It Is A map is not unlike a poem: It records terrain, it captures a time when, and it offers transport (by road, river, train, walking) connecting here to there, and self to former self. Moscow. The Great Wall of China. Spain. Zimbabwe. Japan. The intersection of Broadway and Devon. Susan Moss's travels to many places shift her perspective in striking ways. In Mapping A Life, each poem embodies a place come to--new or new-again ( a familiar route / that has changed ). Through these compelling poems, an attentive wayfaring spirit unwraps her insights and her vision. -Veronica Patterson, author of Sudden White Fan The many facets of one woman's global travels-not limited to the perceptible-have been stunningly re-created here by Susan Moss, a poet of uncommon acuity and insight. Her solitary walk across a rural path fringed. . .by mushrooms and speckled stones quickly expands into a world tour that includes a side-trip to an ancient forest she calls time's arboretum --and again at a precipice of memories, encompassing destinations as disparate as Africa, Tokyo, and the south of Spain. Such wonders--along with affectionate glimpses of fellow travelers who accompany the poet from time to time--make this a journey well worth taking. -Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2009-2010 Susan Moss's vividly imagistic poems embrace the flow of a richly lived life, mapping out the progression of each stage she has witnessed, from the exuberant passions of youth through the meditations of maturity leading to the wisdom we all hope to achieve, a peace that is the still point within ourselves. In the end, all comes down to savoring each segment of life upon the map and understanding through good times and bad that one can only find that still point if you keep walking past the bitter stones of hope. . .It is in the doing, every inch inhaled that one achieves it. This book is a gem to be held in your hands so that you can study every facet, allowing an understanding of a map of life that encompasses all of us. -Jared Smith, Author of Shadows Within the Roaring Fork and That's How It Is A map is not unlike a poem: It records terrain, it captures a time when, and it offers transport (by road, river, train, walking) connecting here to there, and self to former self. Moscow. The Great Wall of China. Spain. Zimbabwe. Japan. The intersection of Broadway and Devon. Susan Moss's travels to many places shift her perspective in striking ways. In Mapping A Life, each poem embodies a place come to--new or new-again ( a familiar route / that has changed ). Through these compelling poems, an attentive wayfaring spirit unwraps her insights and her vision. -Veronica Patterson, author of Sudden White Fan


The many facets of one woman's global travels-not limited to the perceptible-have been stunningly re-created here by Susan Moss, a poet of uncommon acuity and insight. Her solitary walk across a rural path fringed. . .by mushrooms and speckled stones quickly expands into a world tour that includes a side-trip to an ancient forest she calls time's arboretum -and again at a precipice of memories, encompassing destinations as disparate as Africa, Tokyo, and the south of Spain. Such wonders-along with affectionate glimpses of fellow travelers who accompany the poet from time to time-make this a journey well worth taking. -Marilyn L. Taylor, Ph.D., Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2009-2010 Susan Moss's vividly imagistic poems embrace the flow of a richly lived life, mapping out the progression of each stage she has witnessed, from the exuberant passions of youth through the meditations of maturity leading to the wisdom we all hope to achieve, a peace that is the still point within ourselves. In the end, all comes down to savoring each segment of life upon the map and understanding through good times and bad that one can only find that still point if you keep walking past the bitter stones of hope. . .It is in the doing, every inch inhaled that one achieves it. This book is a gem to be held in your hands so that you can study every facet, allowing an understanding of a map of life that encompasses all of us. -Jared Smith, Author of Shadows Within the Roaring Fork and That's How It Is A map is not unlike a poem: It records terrain, it captures a time when, and it offers transport (by road, river, train, walking) connecting here to there, and self to former self. Moscow. The Great Wall of China. Spain. Zimbabwe. Japan. The intersection of Broadway and Devon. Susan Moss's travels to many places shift her perspective in striking ways. In Mapping A Life, each poem embodies a place come to-new or new-again ( a familiar route / that has changed ). Through these compelling poems, an attentive wayfaring spirit unwraps her insights and her vision. -Veronica Patterson, author of Sudden White Fan


Author Information

Susan T. Moss is the author of two books of poetry: Keep Moving 'til The Music Stops (Lily Pool/Swamp Press, 2006) and In From The Dark (Antrim House, 2014). Her work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and magazines, as well as on radio and cable. Susan has served six terms as president of Illinois State Poetry Society. She has been awarded a Vermont Studio Center residency and two Illinois Humanities fellowships. Susan is a graduate of Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English.

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