Hi, I'm Suzanne Nielsen

"I started writing the moment I became aware of words".

Oh, the Fun When an Outlaw Remembers

A Sparkling, Poetic Stroll

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this poetry of shared community!

"Poet Suzanne Nielsen has packed an extraordinary amount of living into her six decades, zigging and zagging from the sublime to the ridiculous, and apparently having a rollicking good time along the way. Like a handful of brilliant women writers of a certain age, Nielsen’s the real deal, the genuine article; she has written her life - and parts of ours - in this book of poems with careless grace, wry humor and heart-stopping poignancy. She paints unforgettable word pictures, such as touching the tracery of shrapnel scars on her warrior son’s chest, or watching blood-red autumn leaves "floating down into a blanket of camaraderie." Her tales of love are bittersweet (or occasionally just bitter) while her stories of loss are wildly funny. There are dying mothers, deserting husbands, runaway dogs and tits that have tanked. For a woman who has had a lifetime of “watching the strangeness evolve,” her rendering of it all on paper is pure alchemy - becoming a thing of wonder, and hilarity, and ultimately, ineffable beauty. Buy this book."

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