What We Take with Us

Through the prisms of love and loss, memory, individual narratives, and the natural world, this collection of poems celebrates the bounty of life-ordinary human experience as an act of discovery. Our daily encounters with the world, universal and particular, are what breathe life into us-what we take with us and ultimately leave behind. The poems examine the common landmarks of our lives, "the careful threads that hold us together," joy and suffering, passions and disappointments, the search for identity, complexities of nature, growth and decline, the paradoxes of reality. Meaningful gifts abound in the small and often astonishing details which serve to define the human condition.

Author: Susan Dworski Nusbaum
Publisher: Coffeetown Press
Published: 06/01/2014
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9781603812337

About the Author
Nusbaum, Susan Dworski: - Born in Rochester, NY, Susan Dworski Nusbaum received her BA from Smith College and her law degree from the University of Buffalo Law School. She lives in Buffalo NY where she has worked as a teacher, arts administrator, and most recently as a criminal prosecutor. She has been a frequent participant in the Chautauqua Institution Writers' Festival and Chautauqua Writers' Center poetry workshops, and has served on the Board of the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Connecticut Review, Poetry East, Nimrod International Journal, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Chautauqua, Harpur Palate, Wisconsin Review, The Sow's Ear, Earth's Daughters, Artvoice, and The Buffalo News. Her manuscript, What We Take With Us was a finalist in the 2014 Brittingham/Pollack Prize Competition, University of Wisconsin Press.