Today in Jacket2, Jim Berger weighs in on Susan M. Schultz

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

In this reflective and deeply thoughtful essay, the Jim Berger explores the unique ways Susan Schultz's poetry engages with themes of madness, truth, and the search for honesty in a disordered world. Drawing on Schultz’s works—from The Dementia Blogs to Lilith Walks—the essay considers the author’s pursuit of "the honest sentence," a quest akin to Diogenes’ search for an honest man. Through vivid personal encounters and poetic inquiry, Schultz navigates the fraught terrain of contemporary politics, identity, and daily life, all while walking with her dog, Lilith. The essay probes the connection between the mundane and the profound, offering readers a compelling meditation on how we might come to terms with the madness of our times through poetry, personal reflection, and the quiet solidarity of dog walks.

Read the whole article here:

https://jacket2.org/article/date-diogenes-and-dog


More Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz

https://www.blazevox.org/shop-1/p/more-lilith-walks-by-susan-m-schultz



Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz
https://www.blazevox.org/shop-1/p/lilith-walks-by-susan-m-schultz

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org
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