What's Left, Poems by Susan Sindall
The poems of Susan Sindall’s What’s Left search for what endures, standing slightly apart from the world, from experience, from memory, to see with precision sharp as ice:
If I could raise
my senses to the third power
and multiply them
by my distance from these objects,
death, would I understand
your clarity?
In 1960, Susan Sindall graduated from the Dance Division of the Juilliard School of Music. She performed with Mary Anthony and others, and taught children and adults at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, Manhattanville College, and the Lincoln Center Institute. She retired from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in 1985 to focus on writing. While working towards her degree from New York University, she taught for Teachers and Writers Collaborative. Residencies awarded by the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts provided quiet retreats. In 2005, she earned an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College. Without that stringent, stimulating, and completely supportive adventure, this collection would not exist. She is a founding editor of Heliotrope, a journal of poetry and lives in the Hudson Valley with her composer husband. Their son and daughter, with spouses and two grandsons, often visit.
ISBN-13: 978-1934999882, 80 pages, $18.00