Day 19 * JOHN KEATS * SUSANA GARDNER *

JOHN KEATS (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death. Hear Susana Gardner read Keats' Ode to a Nightingale here.  

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SUSANA GARDNER (1973-  ) is an American poet, recently repatriated. She curates this yearly nondenominational audio advent poetics calendar. She reads a reworked ditty here.

DAY 14: Susana Gardner, TRIUMPH OF LOVE: A FEMINIST RIOT MANIFESTO, or A Pussy Prayer in an Age of Darkness

TRIUMPH OF LOVE: A FEMINIST RIOT MANIFESTO, or A Pussy Prayer in an Age of Darkness
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BECAUSE THE SHELL HALF-SWALLOWED HER

Susana Gardner's second full-length collection, HERSO An Heirship in Waves was published by Black Radish Books this fall. She lives in Zürich.

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December 19th: Susana Gardner

Artless
     Adores her itinerant
Quivering  Sea of voices

Painted
     Image   legible
Iridescent  rich& lush

Binding December    alone
     Eat your early paradox:
Dirty Cloak Industry

Artless is
     Radiant exultant
Contractions of little mugs

Heaving& rising
     Incident me:
Come, Come, Come!

Answer mechanically
     Thoughts persist
Alcohol tedious    thereafter

Inward damp imbecilic
     Dress    half undone
Evident atrocity

Ought I leave?
     His harlot artfulness
Wanton carmine-tinted menacing

Ardent
     Wakefulness  desiring
Luscious lips        diminish

Half-ships
     Idempotent     perfidy
Apogeic maxims

Susana Gardner's latest book, Herso, An Heirship in Waves is forthcoming from Black Radish Books. She lives in Zürich.

Day 11: Susana Gardner

Susana Gardner is an American poet who has lived in Switzerland for several years. Her first full-length collection, (lapsed insel weary) was published by The Tangent Press, OR in 2008. Herso, An Heirship in Waves is forthcoming from Black Radish Books in early 2010.