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Product Description Weight of Light is precise and questioning. Smallen's attention to the smallest details reveals deep passion behind her quiet watchfulness. The wisdom resulting from Smallen’s practiced sight is perhaps what makes this book so compelling. Each poem is a microcosm of a larger truth. In Smallen’s search for meaning we see that everything in the universe moves—even the inanimate and the dead. Algebra, physics, dance, spirituality, and art are all included, and behind these subjects, a clock is ticking. Remarkably, there is peacefulness in her acceptance of the transitory world—even in her knowledge of the inevitability of grief. Review Smallen writes with resonant clarity and a common sense... work that beautifully marries attention and evanescence. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence Su Smallen's poems are wonderfully faithful to the world, its unanswerable questions and undeniable mysteries. -- Jim Moore, author of The Long Experience of Love This is a brave, bright, deeply compassionate book. -- Kathleen Peirce, author of The Ardors About the Author Su Smallen is the author of six collections of poetry. Her first collection, Weight of Light, was nominated for the Pushcart Press Editor's Book Award, and Buddha, Proof was a Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Su was awarded the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, several fellowships and grants including from the Jerome Foundation, and residencies including with the St. Croix Watershed Research Station. With Laurel Poetry Collective, she published books and broadsides for ten years. Su was a professional choreographer and dancer, and her poetry has served as scores for dance and film, including Miracle of the Spring. susmallen.com