Anhinga Press: A Short Interview with Suzanne Frischkorn

New interview up at the Anhinga Press Instagram account! I loved speaking with Anhinga Press about WHIPSAW. Here is a snip if you aren't on Instagram --

Speaking of Marvels Interview

Many thanks to William Woolfitt for inviting me to participate in his wonderful interview series Speaking of Marvels! I answered questions on overcoming inhibition, my writing space, revision, WHIPSAW, and what I’m working on now.

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 Reviewed at New Pages

Grateful for this beautiful, thoughtful review by Jennifer Martelli of FIXED STAR at New Pages—

“Frischkorn’s use of the sonnet crown throughout the book reminds us of her mastery of the craft…. In Fixed Star, Suzanne Frischkorn assures us that, despite displacement and despair, it is the language of poetry that will “coax the palomas to follow you home.”

FIXED STAR Reviewed by Emily Pérez at RHINO

Very grateful to Emily Pérez for this beautiful, thoughtful review of FIXED STAR at RHINO. “Throughout, the poet seeks the place that’s hers….She is not welcomed by nations with open arms; instead through travel, exile, story, and invention she crafts her own fixed star.”

An Interview on Fixed Star at Tahoma Literary Review

I’m so grateful to Jessica Cuello for her close reading of FIXED STAR and her meaningful questions for this interview at Tahoma Literary Review. We spoke about ancestry, the role of the body in relation to memory, capitalism, communism, what I’ve been reading, what I’m looking forward to reading, and much more! 

Interview at EcoTheo Review

A thousand and one thanks to Esteban Rodriguez for his close reading of FIXED STAR and his thought-provoking questions for this interview at EcoTheo Review. We spoke about language, heritage, the writing community, joy, and much more.

FIXED STAR is officially out!

 

Thank you Simone Muench, JackLeg Press, everyone who helped me make this book a reality, & all of you who celebrated with me along the way — I am very grateful.

Purchase FIXED STAR from your local bookstore at — IndieBound, Book Shop,  B&N, or Amazon. 

TBR: Fixed Star Interview by Leslie Pietrzyk

Thrilled to have FIXED STAR featured on TBR, Leslie Pietrzyk's wonderful interview series! I can't believe the official release date is this Thursday -- September 15th!

Writers in Conversation Suzanne Frischkorn and Emily Hockaday hosted by Laurel Peterson

Looking forward to talking with Emily and Laurel in person at the Norwalk Library— if you’re in the area I would love to see you there!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester (via Zoom)

 

This poetry reading hosted by The Hudson Valley Writers Center with Q&A is free and open to all. 

A Garden of Verse Summer 2022 Poetry Series, BK Fischer & Suzanne Frischkorn In-Person Ridgefield, Connecticut

I’m so excited to read with BK Fischer (in-person!) on August 8th, at 7PM for the 2022 Summer Reading Series at the beautiful Keeler Tavern Museum Garden in Ridgefield, CT. I hope you can join us!

An Afternoon with Suzanne Frischkorn, Mai Der Vang, & Jennifer Elise Forester - Hudson Valley Writers Center (via Zoom)

 

I’m so excited to be reading with Mai Der Vang & Jennifer Elise Forester on August 7th, at 4PM for The Hudson Valley Writers Center! Via Zoom | FREE. I hope you can join us! 

Fixed Star on Tour!

 

Fixed Star has a Preorder Link!

I’m excited to share that my new poetry collection is now available for preorder! The official release date is September 15th.  

It’s available at these sites:

BookShop | Barnes & Noble | Amazon 

Advance Praise:

In Suzanne Frischkorn’s intoxicating Fixed Star, content and form mirror and echo each other, twin and twine. From the opening line in the first of a sequence of sonnets that generates the book’s architecture, "Birth cleaved me in half,” we learn that the subject is separation, from first language, landscape, and heritage, a loss, a violence, a thievery carried by and negotiated within the body, which becomes, itself, a translation. So what, then, can poetry be? In Frischkorn’s hands, it is— well—everything. It is the cry and the answering cry, the body’s disappearance and revolution, history and tangled myth and the site of self-creation, honoring the fragments while languaging them into something greater, more songful than a whole. Much of the book’s authority emerges from Frischkorn’s formal virtuosity. And then there are the voices she braids into the poems. Transtromer and Plath. Keats and John Cage. Shakespeare and Olga Guillot. They are lyric companions on a perilous road…Fixed Star cannot be reduced to anything but itself. I am in genuine awe.

─Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets

Elegant, clear-eyed, and restless, Suzanne Frischkorn’s poems seek and illuminate the frayed hyphens fastening us to family, to the world. Her searching is psychologically rich, transformative: an iridescent interiority spirals outward to touch what sustains it, what divides it. Structurally brilliant, alive with lyrical thinking and observations, Fixed Star is ample proof of Frischkorn’s poetic gifts. In her hands, language is light.

─Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine

Swifted!

 

Swifted! Thank you so much Taylor Swift as Books for this gorgeous pairing. TSAB is my favorite Instagram account and FIXED STAR being featured is a huge thrill! Many thanks to Reb Livingston for her artwork and to JackLeg Press cover designer Richard Every. 

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!

New Poetry Collection - FIXED STAR forthcoming from JackLeg Press!

I’m excited to share that my next poetry collection, FIXED STAR, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press! Much gratitude to JLP poetry editor Simone Muench, founding editor & director Jennifer Harris, and the entire editorial team for selecting my book. I’m so thrilled to join the JLP family of writers! 

Here are some of Simone’s comments on FIXED STAR— "The opening poem, "Cuban Polymita," from which the title Fixed Star arises, serves as the scaffolding device for Frischkorn's manuscript. Like the beautiful painted snails it references, the book, too, is a series of spirals: mainly, a pair of sonnet coronas whose recursive lines twine through the manuscript, both framing and bracing it. Navigating splits in language, geography, government, culture, and family—"My father's from Cuba. I'm American. /He wanted me to learn one language really well"—Frischkorn guides us through poems that are, contrapuntally, both luxuriant and lean.... FIXED STAR is a brilliant treatise on violence, division, loss, longing, and the search for song."