Venus in Retrograde: poems
"Susan Lilley's clear speaking voice combines with her knack for striking images and metaphors to create a tone that is both intimate and inventive. It's hard to stop reading these open-hearted accounts that follow her life from girlhood to womanhood in charming poems, often erotic and always richly detailed."
-BILLY COLLINS
In a voice both lyrical and conversational, Orlando Poet Laureate Susan Lilley interprets various stages of womanhood while parsing the beauty and decay of her beloved homestate of Florida.
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"Whenever the Planet of Love twirls in reverse, the resultant mayhem leaves us wired and twitchy, heart-shattered, bedeviled and deliciously disturbed. The Mistress Lilley strides resolutely into the chaos, hefting deftly-crafted stanzas that rejigger our staid realities and addict us to the spin. "
-PATRICIA SMITH, author of Incendiary Art
"The braiding of the sublime and the quotidian wends itself throughout and becomes a powerful reckoning of one's life. Lilley's voice is steeped in hard-earned lyrical wisdom, one that surveys life with an inter-generational lens."
-BRIAN TURNER, author of My Life as a Foreign Country
"Susan Lilley's clear speaking voice combines with her knack for striking images and metaphors to create a tone that is both intimate and inventive. It's hard to stop reading these open-hearted accounts that follow her life from girlhood to womanhood in charming poems, often erotic and always richly detailed."
-BILLY COLLINS
