All This Blood - Paperback

by Susie Petersiel Berg (Author)

These centos, imitations, and found poems scavenge truths by lifting telling phrases overheard in cafes and bars, glimpsed on Facebook, or recalled from childhood and adult encounters. They are at turns heart-wrenching, painful, and humorous. From the poet Ellen Bass, Susie Berg has learned the art of the heart-twist and how to reveal underlying anxieties, the deeper currents in the blood that flow beneath our dailiness. - Berg delivers an unsettling yet cohesive collection. Susie Berg's All This Blood burns brilliantly with arresting sensorial language and images steeped in life's great unfolding and memorable moments. Berg's well-crafted potent lines are salient, and reaffirm these diurnal instances ushering in the cogent understanding recollection brings. All This Blood folds us into Berg's cyclic experiences, and we instantly see and feel the dynamic wonder of common humanity on display.

Author Biography

Susie Berg is the former co-curator of Toronto's Plasticine Poetry Reading Series, and the author of two poetry collections, including the just-released All This Blood, from Piquant Press, as well as two chapbooks and a Lyrical Myrical collection. Her work has appeared in such journals as carte blanche, ArsMedica, and Switchback, and in the anthologies The Mom Egg Review, Desperately Seeking Susans, and Body and Soul. She is the editor of the anthology Catherines, the Great, forthcoming in 2018 from Oolichan Books. All This Blood is the second book of poetry by Susie Berg published by Piquant Press. How to Get Over Yourself was published in 2014 and is also available on Amazon.