It's Over - Paperback

by Susan Wolbarst (Author)

It's Over is a series of haunting poems powered by bare-boned immediate feeling. The narrative structure of the poems connects readers to the intensity of each moment, whether the subject matter is a naked woman running through the streets of Nazi-occupied Poland, the survivor of a suicidal jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, a mother who loves being a badass, or drinking beer in Mexico during the predictable daily downpour. The poems are propelled forward without any sense of artifice or pretense. Self-irony and understated lyricism are interspersed with evocative epiphanies, expressed in simple and direct language.