{"product_id":"gallery-of-postcards-and-maps-new-selected-poems","title":"Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\"The new and selected poems of \u003ci\u003eGallery of Postcards and Maps\u003c\/i\u003e introduce themselves with a warmth that deepens into wisdom. Susan Rich finds music in everything inside and outside her windows: Leonora Carrington, Vegetarian Vampires, lovers and ex-lovers, Lorca and Courbet. This book displays the hallmarks of her oeuvre: her mastery of form; her acuity of heart and eye. These terrific poems are full of compassion, lyricism and attention. The selected reflects an ever-present restlessness of spirit, flesh, and intellect. Glad I got to read it.\" - Terrance Hayes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Susan Rich's \u003ci\u003eGallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is a wondrous and wonderful collection. It gathers poems from her four volumes of poetry while featuring a stellar selection of new work. Perceptive and honest, these masterful poems represent a life's journey full of imagination, desire, and craft, always striving for transcendence--'knowing yes! is the one chosen thing.' This expansive collection is both a work of art and a map for what it means to be an artist.\" - January Gill O'Neil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With Susan Rich's new and selected poems, \u003ci\u003eGallery of Postcards and Maps\u003c\/i\u003e, we are given a poet's meditative journey through time, history, memory, desire. It is 'a collage of wanting, ' a swirling, hallucinogenic 'quest into the miraculous.' These poems create a deep conversation with artists, works of art, the world itself as art, and, above all, with the wild, living planet itself. At one point, Rich asks--How to write your one blue life? This \u003ci\u003eGallery of Postcards and Maps\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a guidebook and a poetic response to that very question. Rich is a lighthouse poet--a poet who returns us to the harbor of the self while also illuminating the wide and mysterious world we live in.\" - Brian Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eGallery of Postcards and Maps\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Rich distills the themes explored in previous collections--travel, human rights, family history, the color blue. Every idea is a map she chooses to follow and taking her father's advice, confirms for the reader that: journeys don't happen in straight lines.\" - Geraldine Mills","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54418427183409,"sku":"9781915022134","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/3922\/2065\/files\/imageloader_830ae8cc-4471-4b84-a360-68fa0b18012f.jpg?v=1780526602","url":"https:\/\/bainbridgeisland.press\/products\/gallery-of-postcards-and-maps-new-selected-poems","provider":"Bainbridge Island Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}