Cures Include Travel
AUTHOR
Susan Rich
A dynamic new collection by the winner of the PEN West Poetry Award. Rich’s poetry tracks the globe, drawing us into the lives of ordinary people on nearly every continent.
Reviews
“‘These begonias have come a long way,’ writes Susan Rich in a marvelous poem called ‘Everyone in Bosnia Loves Begonias,’ and so has she! I admired her talent years ago, and this book makes it clear that she has grown into a mature and accomplished poet.”
—Linda Pastan
Susan Rich grew up in Massachusetts where she spent most of her childhood dreaming of other worlds. As soon as she could, she left home and began wandering. Sarajevo, Cape Town, and Gaza City are some of the places her travels took her. THE CARTOGRAPHER'S TONGUE includes a sequence of poems from her time as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and as an Electoral Supervisor participating in the first national elections in Bosnia. The Cartographer's Tongue won the PEN Award for Poetry as well as the Peace Corps Writers Award. Her second book, CURES INCLUDE TRAVEL, continues with poems of South Africa and Somalia juxtaposed with observations of her home geography of Seattle. Her poems have appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Christian Science Monitor, Harvard Magazine, Poetry International and Witness. She teaches in the Antioch MFA program and at Highline Community College in the Seattle area.