Review
“A green and gorgeous keening, a testament to the solace of nature and of poetry.This powerful work is surely McMaster’s best and very moving.”
– Penn Kemp
“Susan McMaster is a fearless and passionate shaper of thought and feeling, and ofthe poetic language that animates. Until the Light Bends is required poetry.”
– Joseph Sherman
“McMaster’s ongoing concern with the cosmos turns inward in these poems, trackingthose moments when black holes open up within a life. Through a startling, disjunctivesyntax, her distinctive voice rises from the page and guides us throughdeaths, arguments, dreams, desires, to where we can see ‘wild green plums deepeningto blue.’
” – Stephanie Bolster
Joseph Sherman
Susan McMaster is a fearless and passionate shaper of thought and feeling, and of the poetic language that animates.