Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss’s most recent collection, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf Press, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry. Four-Legged Girl (Graywolf Press, 2015) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. frank: sonnets is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2021. Seuss is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Reading List
[The problem with sweetness is death. The problem]
The problem with sweetness is death. The problem with everything is death. There really is no other problem if you factor everything down, which I was no good at when studying fractions. They were always using pie as their example. Rather than thinking about factoring things down I wondered what kind of pie. And here […]
[All lives have their tropes over which we have minimal control. Maybe beauty]
All lives have their tropes over which we have minimal control. Maybe beauty is your trope. That’s a good one. Or maybe you’re the ugly one. Not fun. You feel the eyes and learn to live with them. Or you’re the princess rankled by the pea. Or the pea smothered under ten thousand mattresses and […]
[To say that I’m a witch makes me feel better all-around]
To say that I’m a witch makes me feel better all-around, lets me off a kind of hook, not fishhook, meat hook, despair, the green cast of my hair, the bitter greens I grow and cook and consume in inopportune mouthfuls, mouthfuls by which I consumed, in the past, my life. Did I consume my […]