There Is A Doe In The Winter Hayfield - Paperback

by Susan Gordon (Author), Lana Hechtman Ayers (Editor)

Susan Gordon's extraordinary language conveys us through death to dissolution and transfiguration, as she bears careful, caring witness to the body of a belly-shot doe day after day, week after week, month after month, through all seasons of the weather and the soul. Time and again precise description breaks open into transcendent vision; beauty entwines with horror, both driving towards the "unraveling / of what comes / after everything has been undone." This is a masterpiece, a poem I will cherish and revisit for many years.

--Jo Radner, author of Yankee Ingenuity on CD, Professor of Literature Emerita, American University, and Storyteller