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Cousins, C. (2012). After the Firestorm Susan Kolodny Woodstock, New York: Mayapple Press, 2011; 57 pp.. Fort Da, 18:81-87.

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(2012). Fort Da, 18:81-87

Reviews: Book Review Essay

After the Firestorm Susan Kolodny Woodstock, New York: Mayapple Press, 2011; 57 pp.

Candis Cousins, Ph.D. Author Information

In Susan Kolodny's recently published collection of poems, After the Firestorm, safety, order, excitement and delight can be met with disruption, destruction, or loss. In these poems we find the inextricability of the seen and the unseen, of contentment and menace, and of wanting and not wanting to know and be known.

The 28 poems of After the Firestorm are organized into three sections. Each untitled section, to my ear, reflects a period of life from youth (I) to parenthood and clinical training (II) and finally, to the later years of living with loss and catastrophe (III). Together, the three sections trace the development of the capacity for recognizing and living with complexity. In this way, I think of the 28 poems as the arc of a lifetime, comprising a single poem.

Uninterested in being didactic or obscure, Kolodny stays away from conceptual writing — her subjects arise from her own experience. Words are carefully chosen, lines carefully constructed, yet the poems read wit

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