There Is A Doe In The Winter Hayfield

<p>Susan Gordon’s extraordinary language conveys us through death to dissolution and transfiguration as she bears careful caring witness to the body of a belly-shot doe day after day week after week month after month through all seasons of the weather and the soul.  Time and again precise description breaks open into transcendent vision; beauty entwines with horror both driving towards the “unraveling / of what comes / after everything has been undone.”  This is a masterpiece a poem I will cherish and revisit for many years.</p><p>--Jo Radner author of <em>Yankee Ingenuity</em> on CD Professor of Literature Emerita American University and Storyteller</p>