Sara Michas-Martin
Description: Poet Susan Wheeler, author of "Ledger" and "Record Palace"
new york (13091) poetry (4341) poet (1467) diamonds (1353) experimental (1098) poem (502) smokes (15) source codes (9) susan wheeler (1) record palace (1)
pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads SUSAN WHEELER News Books Biography Events Links Poetry Society of America: Susan Wheeler In Her Own Words A mother's death.
A meme, a word that debuted in reference to genetic replication, is a unit of thought replicated by imitation; examples of memes, Richard Dawkins wrote, "are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches." Occupy Wall Street is a meme, as are internet ideas and images that go viral. What could be more potent memes than those passed down by parents to their children?
Wheeler reconstructs her mother's voice—down to its cynicism and its mid twentieth-century midwestern vernacular—in "The Maud Poems," a voice that takes a more aggressive, vituperative turn in "The Devil—or—The Introjects." In the book's third long sequence, a generational inheritance feeds cultural transmission in "The Split." A set of variations on losses and break-ups—wildly, darkly funny throughout and, in places, devastatingly sad—"The Split" brings Wheeler's lauded inventiveness, wit, and insight to t
Sara Michas-Martin