Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit, by Susan Swartwout
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Southern poetry with a gothic twist A Southerner by birth, Susan Swartwout's history and writing are steeped in the gothic elements of quotidian life in the Deep South, a celebration of difference and the uncommon odd beauties who embellish our plain lives. These poems explore the lives of freaks celebrities of Southern fairs' sideshows such as conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker's married lives, the Fat Lady's work schedule, Tom Thumb's Barnum-warped ego, all parallel to the hidden desires, plots, and jealousies of the rest of us. Our exterior normality belies the internal twisted landscapes how complicity and silence echo abuse, how depression infects entire families, how a five-year-old learns to use words as weapons, how human need dispels language's boundaries. From circus oddities to real-life boogeymen, from Louisiana to a Central American village, earth has no dearth of the gothic's strange fruit, illuminating the complexity of what it is to be human.
Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit, by Susan Swartwout - Amazon Sales Rank: #2956508 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .16" w x 5.98" l, .25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 68 pages
Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit, by Susan Swartwout Review
"These vivid poems celebrate the carnivalesque, as M. M. Bakhtin would have it, the sacred and profane blending an edgy verbal gumbo of 'kindled envies.' Desperate changelings, this cast of misfits and saints hankers always to be other than who they are and to be anywhere other than where fate plunked them down. Swartwout renders 'paradise parodied in such odd / beauty,' that locale where spirit covets the body's blood riches. Her gift is the flesh and funk of us given wings."
--Kevin Stein, author of Wrestling Li Po for the Remote and Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age
"In Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit, Susan Swartwout's discerning eye and musical ear offer a cast of characters ranging from Tom Thumb and The Fat Lady to related oddities beneath the surface of 'normal' life. From these well-crafted poems comes her view of the human condition as a Chang-and-Eng bond between beauty and deformity, comedy and tragedy, good and evil, reality and illusion, love and loathing. Beneath all this, abides the closing poem's death-lipping blue catfish, 'whose pale / blue skin mimics high heaven rising / from the river darkness like a heavy soul / or salvation.'"
--William Trowbridge, author of Put This On, Please and Ship of Fool
"Susan Swartwout's riveting poems take us from the time we are 'born into our language' through to adulthood. With an unflinching eye and a lust for invention, she exposes the curious beasts that men and women can become in whatever forms they might unexpectedly take. Through her keen lens we see the often unseen, seasoned by the 'sweet venom' her poems deliver."
--Sally Van Doren, author of Possessive and Sex at Noon Taxes
About the Author Susan Swartwout is professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University where she serves as the publisher of the University Press and edits two literary journals, Big Muddy: Journal of the Mississippi River Valley and The Cape Rock: Poetry. She's the author of the poetry collections Freaks and Uncommon Ground, editor of Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, and co-editor of three books. She has published over 100 poems in literary journals and anthologies. Among her writing awards are the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Award, New York's Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, the Davenport Award for Fiction, a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, and Seattle's Hedgebrook Writers Fellowship.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Absolutely Stunning Work By Amazon Customer Susan's book is absolutely stunning. Her work isn't just something you read. You experience it. And every time you do, it sings a slightly different tune that, when combined, becomes a haunting harmony of absolutely fantastic writing. It's an incredible experience to hold the book of someone I love and admire so much. Susan Swartwout is the Queen of Poetry. The Supreme Empress of Southern Gothic.Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit is a book to be experienced again and again. Through each read, you will discover something new.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Come and See the Show! By Laura Luttrell This collection of poems is truly compelling and masterful. Come along with Susan Swartwout to the dark carnival, visit a lost childhood in the deep south, experience a life filled with "odd beauty and strange fruit" as our heroine exposes the belly of the beast. She has painted a moving picture with words that tell a fascinating tale. I did not simply read this book, I was immersed in a river of sight, sound and emotion by it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. punctuated by beautiful language and metaphor -- contradictory to the dark subjects ... By Southern Reader A stunning collection of poems, punctuated by beautiful language and metaphor -- contradictory to the dark subjects and freakish assembly. A wonderful read from first to final poem!
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