Dirt, Root, Silk
By Susan Azar Porterfield
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize Book Award.
"The poems in Susan Azar Porterfield's DIRT, ROOT, SILK dig deeply and with precision into the hidden layers of human relationships. Whether the geography is her own mind and body, her backyard, the endless cornfields of the Midwest, or the world at large, the poems are a discovery of both the strengths and fragility of the human condition."
—James Ballowe
In Dirt, Root, Silk, poems create enchanted spaces rich in memory and imagination. Susan Azar Porterfield’s keen eye approaches reality slantwise, capturing details under a magnifying lens, and endowing domestic scenes with universal dimension. A subtle complexity of emotion arises from the convergence of multiple planes of consciousness, artfully opening doors to deeper meanings. These poems are multifaceted gems...