New World

Suzanne Gardinier is the author of Usahn: Ten Poems and a Story (1990). In 1992 she was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship, which "recognizes writers of distinctive literary merit." She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

A great poem of this end of our century. It is masterfully structured in recurring themes and voices which build on and off each other. Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that in Keats's words, every rift is laden with ore. I found this a thrilling poem to read.