Pacific Shooter: Poems

"Pacific Shooter is a book of transformations as insubordinate and subversive as Ovid's Metamorphoses — and with all the taste and twang of a new language. The bourgeois reader will hate it: there's too much magic, too much genius, too much linguistic bliss." — Susan Mitchell, from her judge's citation
"Susan Parr's poetry is an orchestra of rim-shots and flashbang intimacy. 'Wind a sheet around all,' she croons in this vivid collection, 'then bring into the dark this beatific twill.' Her po...