Susan Luzzaro has the voice of a deeply intelligent friend

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Susan Luzzaro
Publisher: Trask House
PubDate: 1/1/1996
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Poetry

"Susan Luzzaro's poems are arguments for love and human ethics. The diction is spare and precise, the interior/exterior vision flawless. Susan Luzzaro has the voice of a deeply intelligent friend, a woman you can trust. She writes as though our lives depended upon these poems. Reading them one cannot help but share her desire for justice, for a more tender engagement with the physical world"
-Sandra Alcosser.

An Easter/Passover poem dedicated to Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz and their pals Dan Puplava, Diane Crosier and Lora Duzyk at SDCOE

The stanzas below are from Maya Angelou's poem Still I Rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries...

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room...

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise...