Unfinished Spaces by Susan Hunter

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Susan Hunter’s Unfinished Spaces is a collection of poems that compellingly conjure both past and present. Hunter’s language is crafted to ruminate and communicate in poems that trust memory, even while knowing it is “fickle.” These poems are intimately familiar with “the slow cadence / of the passing years” and record a life lived with compassion while crafting that life creatively through poetic projection and recollection. “I recall the robin’s song that is my childhood,” Hunter writes, and we readers have the pleasure of hearing that song through words.

 –Stephan Delbos, Poet Laureate of Plymouth, MA., author of the poetry collection Small Talk

 

Unfinished Spaces is an intimate exploration of past and future, memory and premonition. In these poems, endings don’t come with the finality of the click of a lock, but instead hang like doors left ajar where the rooms just beyond are “still burning with whatever / keeps my imperfect heart going.” Susan Hunter has written a book of poems intent on vision, the kind that, like an owl swiveling its head forward and back, refuses to abandon anything in its sight.

–Keetje Kuipers, author of All its Charms and editor of Poetry Northwest

 

 

 

 

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Unfinished Spaces

by Susan Hunter

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979-8-88838-439-8

2024

Unfinished Spaces includes poems about the rooms and houses left behind during a lifetime, about lovers, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles lost and the spaces they still inhabit that are always unfinished spaces. Deep into a new phase of life, the poems reflect a unique placement between a generation now gone and young children growing up in a timeless universe and a world that has connections to the past and the future. The geography of memory is truer than any map and connects far-away places to the present day. History, with the spirits and artists that inhabit it, is always with us.

Susan Hunter’s poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review, Saranac Review, The Chaffin Journal, Poem and Illya’s Honey. She was a contest winner in the Plymouth (MA) Poetry contest in 2020 and attended the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference in 2017 as a general contributor in poetry. She has read her poetry in venues in Connecticut and Massachusetts as well as on Cape Cod NPR radio and local arts television shows in Plymouth, MA where she lives with her husband. She has made her living as a newspaper editor and freelance journalist.

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