It's Over - Softcover

Wolbarst, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798899900945

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Susan Wolbarst has worked at many jobs-including a one-day stint on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange-and been especially drawn to jobs putting words on a page, such as working at small-town newspapers. She currently lives in rural Gualala, California, where she works as a reporter for the local (print!) weekly newspaper. When she's not writing news stories, she writes poetry as well as various flavors of prose. Her poetry has been published in Plainsongs, thewildword.com, pioneertownlit.com, Third Street Review and others. Five of her poems were published in a recent Canadian anthology, Alchemy and Miracles, nature woven into words, edited by Cassandra Arnold. Susan won second place in California State Poetry Society's 2022 and 2023 annual contests. She has an MA in fine art from California State University, Sacramento and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Susan attended Bennington College in Vermont. She published a cookbook in 1992: Tasting Gold, A goldmine of recipes from Nevada County's best restaurants. When she's not reading, writing, or cooking, she enjoys travel, walking on the beach and messing around in kayaks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798899900945
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 46