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Trip To Tangier- Photographs by Wayne : A disappearing culture

Trip To Tangier- Photographs by Wayne

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Art and Poetry ( click here for samples) : "Thirsting" is the title of this painting by my friend, artist Carol Bomer, whose spectacular work can be viewed online at Soli Deo Gloria studio. Many of her pieces were inspired by my poems. In fact, she has a series of "Banding" paintings based on my poem. We are currently working on a collaborative book of words and images, and I will keep you posted as to publication date. 


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What a Light Thing, This Stone (click here for samples) : Praise for  What a Light Thing, This Stone (Sow's Ear Press):

"The poems of Suzanne Clark are strongly and delicately spun from a deep encounter with the real world. The quality of her observation is both calm and surprised, as if wonder were the most natural thing there is." --Henry Taylor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.       "One of Suzanne Clark's poems begins like this: 

"The nets of God hang in every wild place / to catch the unwary migrant, one with the skull / still soft..." Reading these dark, paradoxical, brilliant poems, I am that migrant, captured again and again in these nets of God, but then released, banded like a bird, branded with burning images." --Luci Shaw, Poet and Writer in Residence, Regent College

"Her poems have force and skill, and often a shocking wisdom. [Her] poetry cannot be fitted into any trend. She is her own guide, and arrives at strange and haunting places."
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Weather Of The House (click here for samples) : Out of print

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Blog : 11/12/09

What better way to spend a nor'easter than to eat a banana split with your baby at the Silver Diner? 

11/14/09

Working on my book today and reviewing what I've written. It strikes me that much is insincere though I didn't think so at the time. How to heed Hemingway's advice to "write the truest sentence you know"? Writers work on so many levels at once: audience awareness (two-edged sword), respect for the great continent of common human experience and the river of literary tradition, as Eliot described it. And then there are the words themselves--like clothes, I have to feel right in them. 

Consider the wig. The ladies at work went to a wig salon one Saturday (I was invited but declined as I had planned to write) and came to the office on Monday in the wigs they'd bought. Cute! One colleague bought a wig she decided didn't look good on her once she got home, so she offered to try it on me. Well, I wore it for a couple of hours, and I can tell you it wasn't ME. In fact, it gave me a headache, so that was the end of the honey-colored bob. Indeed, there are honey-colored words, stylish words, pretentious words, exotic words, all sorts, but not all ring true.  The origin of this phrase seems good advice for a writer: 

"Due to poor equipment and the scarcity of precious metals, metal workers of the Middle Ages were not able to produce coins that were uniform in appearance and weight. This situation gave criminals an opportunity they couldn't resist. Thus, when in doubt over a coin's validity, a tradesman would drop it on a stone slab to "sound it." If phony, it'd make a shrill or dull, flat tone in contrast to the clear ring of a true coin. By extension, a story tested and found acceptable is said to ring true, and its opposite, to ring false or hollow."

-Nancy M. Kendall, "True and false", "Christian Science Monitor" 3/19/2003

So it's back to the drawing board for me. Writing truly IS revising.

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Wayne and Suzanne Family and Friends 2010

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