Susan Thomas

Events

April 17, 2012 -- Reading, Bear Pond Books, Montpelier, VT, from The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself (Fomite Press, 2012). 7:00 p.m.

April 3, 2012 -- Reading, Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, CA, from Last Voyage, the selected poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, Spring, 2010), co-translated by Susan, Richard Jackson and Deborah Brown. 7:00 p.m.

Quick Links

Cerise Press

Interview with Susan-Spring 2010

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Selected Works

Poetry

The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself (Fomite Press, 2011)

"Quick, open these pages and meet The Empty Notebook-the enduring nothingness out of which all is generated, the negative capability on which artists thrive, ecstatic world-wanderer, canny literary imitator, driven self-obsessive-as vivaciously, and audaciously, imagined by Susan Thomas. Pleasures await." .

-Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Voice of the Empty Notebook (Finishing Line Press, 2007)

Incredibly original... by turns ironic, tragic, comic... paradoxical gusto of pathos

-Richard Jackson

State of Blessed Gluttony (Red Hen Press, 2004)

Full of meaty poems and wry surprises... Thomas’ reach is broad and daring.

-Maxine Kumin

The Hand Waves Goodbye (Main Street Rag, 2002)

This delightful—and long overdue—collection shows Susan Thomas at her delicious best.

-Jane Shore

Poems in translation

Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli (Red Hen Press, 2010)

“The major portion of this ambitious translation is devoted to Pascoli’s revisionist version of Homer’s epic; in it Odysseus does not return home, slay the suitors and embrace his wife. Instead, he falls into a deep sleep, sails past Ithaka and is forced to revisit his former route, complete with heart-stopping adventures and profound grief. The narration is deft, elegiac, and intensely lyrical, making this book a pleasure to read.” .

-Maxine Kumin