Dressing the Bear - Leary, Susan L
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Winner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction. Many of these poems come in the form of a direct address to her brother: how to speak to the dead now? How to convince herself of her brother's continuation in the next life? Of equal concern is the matter of love: what kind of love exists between a brother and a sister, between the addict and those who love him? More than anything, however, these poems seek to unravel her…mehr

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Winner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary's Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother's passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing, and addiction. Many of these poems come in the form of a direct address to her brother: how to speak to the dead now? How to convince herself of her brother's continuation in the next life? Of equal concern is the matter of love: what kind of love exists between a brother and a sister, between the addict and those who love him? More than anything, however, these poems seek to unravel her brother's wounds, to understand his pride and shame as a result of addiction, as well as to honor and illuminate his unique wisdom-his charm, his humor, and his creativity-that on even his most difficult days was always there.
Autorenporträt
Susan L. Leary is the author of three previous poetry collections: A Buffet Table Fit for Queens (Small Harbor Publishing, 2023), winner of the Washburn Prize; Contraband Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2021); and This Girl, Your Disciple (Finishing Line Press, 2019), finalist for The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Prize and semi-finalist for the Elyse Wolf Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Indiana Review, Tar River Poetry, Superstition Review, The Arkansas International, On the Seawall, Tahoma Literary Review, Cherry Tree, and Pithead Chapel. She has been nominated for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthologies, and recently she was a finalist for the Mudfish Poetry Prize; a finalist for the Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize; a finalist for Midway Journal's -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest; and shortlisted for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. She holds a B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. from the University of Miami and lives in Indianapolis, IN.