Cover reveal! WHIPSAW (Anhinga Press)

I’m so thrilled to share the cover of WHIPSAW coming from Anhinga Press in April. Pre-order HERE Free Shipping til 4/20/24 • At checkout enter code WHIP2024  

My gratitude to acclaimed sculptor David Altmejd for gracing the cover with a detail from his powerful sculpture “Le Trou” and many thanks to the David Kordansky Gallery. Thank you to artist and poet Karla Van Vliet for the beautiful cover design, and to Kristine Snodgrass and Lynne Knight for believing in this book and for their warm welcome to the flock. The whole team at Anhinga has been amazing – shout out to Amber Lunderman!

I’m honored to have the beautiful, generous words of two poets and writers I hold in the highest esteem on the back cover—a thousand and one thanks to Allison Adelle Hedge Coke and Alison Hawthorne Deming!

Here’s what they had to say about it —

Suzanne Frischkorn writes with the grit and tenderness it takes for a woman to live and raise children in violent America. Peril is close at hand, but so too is the solace of forests and seasons. She gathers crystalline images, as after an ice storm, “the branches/sounded like the parting of bead curtains.” But the cut of helicopter blades follows close by. Hers is a terrible and beautiful balancing act. She takes inspiration from Alice Notley, Keith Richards, the Bard—and most profoundly Gaston Bachelard who leads her into “the great law of forest revery.” I treasure this book so rich in thought and feeling. 

--Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World

Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw is an astonishing run through verdant and shattered forests, transcended one temporal dimension at a time. Everything we come to know, by breath and apparition, gives way to what we pull through it, make of it. Whether harp or clasp, song or quietude, dark horse or deer’s leap, social burdens attend condolences and we sure ourselves with understory every entry a new bound. A sensational and deeply intense read, a scatter of sunrays cut through bird song great. This one cuts to the core, delivering stunning reveal. Must read!

--Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, author of Look at This Blue

2024 is Anhinga’s 50th Anniversary – I’m over the moon to be celebrating with this wonderful press!

Fixed Star Reviewed at MER

 "...dualities play out throughout the entire collection, and Frischkorn adeptly weaves inside them images and metaphors that bring the poems back to a place of the self and its survival. The fixed star – oceanic in its depths and as fluid – is a place she seems to create in parts as the speaker reaches for her place in the world."

Very grateful to Sunni Brown Wilkinson for this gorgeous, in-depth review of FIXED STAR at MER!

Fixed Star on Tour!

 

Cover Reveal!

I’m eternally grateful to Reb Livingston for gracing FIXED STAR with her stunning artwork. And a peek at the words from two of my poetry heroes - Eduardo C. Corral and Diane Seuss - whose eloquence and generosity completely overwhelmed me. More soon!

2017 Poet Crush List

I'm flattered to be on this 2017 Poet Crush List among some very fine poets, but feel compelled to let you know my books are not out of print. Both Lit Windowpane and Girl on a Bridge are available at the MSR Bookstore for a very reasonable price. LOL! 

Poets in Conversation

Brent Goodman and I talk about our books in the new issue of Boxcar Poetry Review.

Virtual Book Party

To celebrate the release of my new book, Girl on a Bridge, I am throwing a virtual book party. Please help yourself to some wine and cheese, and listen to a couple of poems from the book, "Indiscretion of an American Wife," 1954, and "Bees," by clicking on the links below.

Cheers! xo
Suzanne



Advance Praise for Girl on a Bridge:

Suzanne Frischkorn is a fierce and fearless poet. In "Girl on a Bridge," she first upends our dainty notions of girlhood and then leads us into the wilderness of violence, madness, fear, and love -- and does so with beauty and tenderness.

--Julianna Baggott

Good citizens beware: Suzanne Frischkorn has let " Girl on a Bridge," loose on the world and she’s spreading the word about the furies of femininity and the madness of motherhood with its “stone weight of home.” These poems burn holes on the fairy tale pages of domestic fantasy and uncover the treacherous (though more exciting) narratives of those women who dare stray from the path or, at the very least, who celebrate their desires: “What’s more flattering than being wanted by a mouth that waters?” This book of finely-crafted verse holds up its poetry like a lovely razor blade.

--Rigoberto González


"Indiscretion of an American Wife," 1954
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeYnfFUuxGU


"Bees"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jjXUSCtHs

For the fabulous guests interested, signed copies of Girl on a Bridge, are available via PayPal--

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or if you prefer, contact me at sfrischkorn at hotmail dot com. It's also available through Main Street Rag and can be ordered from your local bookstore.

Much, much thanks to everyone who already ordered the book. Your support means so much-- Viva la small press!

Lost in the Scent of New Book Pages

Girl on a Bridge is here!

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"Indiscretion of an American Wife," 1954

And Here's one for Girl on a Bridge

which is scheduled for release at the end of this month (!)

Bees, a poem by Suzanne Frischkorn

Cover

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This all must seem to be happening very quickly. I can assure you it has not. Girl On A Bridge took me about 9 years to write, and the first draft wasn't completed until March of this year. (It's gone through 6 drafts since then.) And may I be frank? We're all friends here, no? I am probably looking at another five years before I finish my next manuscript.

I Have Some Good News

MSRP has picked up my next full-length book, Girl On A Bridge, and it's forthcoming in 2010.


Drinks on me~*

I Heart MSRP

Main Street Rag Publishing and the man behind the curtain, M. Scott Douglass are highly recommended in these parts. I really can't say enough about working with Scott, from beginning to end the experience was wonderful, professional, and for want of a better word -- inclusive.  If you're looking for a home for your book be sure to check out MSRP, either through their open reading or their annual contest. I am so happy to belong to their list! While you're at it check out Maureen Alsop's, Apparition Wren, it's one of my favorite first books.

Book, book, book

MSRP is offering 30 percent off the cover price for advance online orders of Lit Windowpane. ($9.00) Please spread the word. Transactions are handled by PayPal which accepts credit cards and personal checks quickly and securely. Order yours here. Thanks so much for all your support and for supporting the small press!



Advance Praise for Lit Windowpane

In a time when there is no greater question than the question of environmental survival, Suzanne Frischkorn's LIT WINDOWPANE reminds us of the necessity of unadorned and unapologetic praise for the natural world. In language spare and well-keeled, Frischkorn's poems instill in the reader the kind of "perfect attentiveness" that the poet Alan Shapiro reminds us is required for reading and loving. Here, in these wonderful poems, we see that attentiveness devoted to the frail and meteoric world through a gaze that is both outward and inward.

--James Hoch

In the poem "Freshwater Notecards" Suzanne Frischkorn writes: "I will fly/ in like a bird: not looking/ sideways, not looking/ down, not looking up." The imagination in these poems is like that; avid and disarming, they take the world head on, seeking beauty. In spare lines, with rich and lucid images, Suzanne Frischkorn sees the world transforming and remaking itself before her gaze. I love the elegant, heartfelt power of these poems.

--Cynthia Huntington

The Reveal

Lit Windowpane, my first full-length book, will be released by Main Street Rag Press in Autumn, 2008!