Assorted Poems (Paperback)

"Assorted Poems "is a generous selection from the first four books by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In "Bag o' Diamonds "(1993), "Smokes "(1998), "Source Codes "(2001), and "Ledger "(2005), Susan Wheeler has established herself as a poet of rare gifts. Her work is allusive and searching, sweeping over time and place, from the art of the northern Renaissance to corporate logos, observing and exploring everything with characteristic precision and intelligence. The poems are both rigorous and free, taking on our culture, its beauties and cruelties, its relationship to the past and its uncertain future. "Assorted Poems "is a vibrantly thoughtful and entertaining book, a mustread from a poet whom Harold Bloom has called "an exuberant, subtle, endlessly inventive original."

Susan Wheeler is the author of four books of poetry and a novel. She lives in the New York area and teaches at Princeton. "Wheeler's poetry doesn't shy from difficulty, complexity or confusion . . . Wheeler holds a door open for the jumble of history: Dutch painting and British theology room with old riddles and "New York Times "articles . . . Economics and emotion face each other across a charged field; stuff gathers in the middle, glittery as a sack of diamonds."--Joshua Clover, "The New York Times Book Review"