Peripheral Vision - Softcover

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Susan Kinsolving was born in Illinois, raised in New England, and educated in California. She has taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars, Southampton College, Willard-Cybulski Men’s Prison, University of Connecticut, California Institute of the Arts, and Keystone Academy in Beijing, China. She has received poetry fellowships from France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Switzerland, New York, Illinois, and Wyoming. As a librettist, she has heard her works performed in New York, California, Italy, and the Netherlands. She is Poet-in-Residence at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut.

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               from “Glass Eyes”

The girl with the glass heart would have a broken

heart, never to mend. And how far could one go

with a glass toe? A glass finger would break

in a simple handshake. Glass genitals would not

be fun once all the smashing had begun.  No, only

glass eyes will do, looking alive while utterly untrue.

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