The Paris Poems

Reading Suzanne Burns’s Paris Poems is a joy no matter what city you live in. Though set in the City of Love these are not only love poems, nor are they a kind of travelogue. Burns’s poems, in rich conversational lines, light up the mind’s sky like The Eiffel Tower on New Year’s. These poems are human, fun, and smart. Each page is a passport to a kind of energetic poetry rarely found traveling out of the MFA empires. —Matthew Dickman, author of All-American Poem (American Poetry Review) In The Paris Poems Suzanne Burns takes us not only to the Paris of the present and the past, of myth and dream, but also, through her American-abroad narrator, to an America we can only wish we did not have to believe. Ms. Burns's voice and poetic lines are personal, fresh, startling, and touched at times by genius. Here "fallen leaves / heckle the ground" and "something is unsavory in desire." No one today is writing livelier or more perceptive poetry. —Tom Whalen, author of Dolls: Prose Poems (Caketrain Press)