Sub Rosa: Poems

by Susan Prospere

Book Overview

Poems deal with the past, secret relationships, hidden emotions, the South, childhood, and love. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393310035
• ISBN13: 9780393310030
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Sub Rosa: An elegant and gorgeous book of poems

Susan Prospere's book of poetry is absolutely divine. She explores childhood (and adulthood) with unusual and vivid imagery, recalling things you might have forgotten about your own childhood such as shooting marbles, lightning bugs and "...small temptations/ in the minds of children." At once accessible and completely mysterious, these poems are as good as poetry gets. You walk away wishing you had written these lines. Many of the poems were published in The New Yorker and excellent literary journals. As an avid poetry reader, I highly recommend this slim volume of exquiste beauty.