Despite high-tech concerns and quips that place her within the interests of Charles Bernstein in his loopy "Nude Formalist" mode, Wheeler's "sources" in this third book seem equally drawn from the allusive grand style of the...
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Susan Wheeler, Author Four Way Books $12.95 (72p) ISBN 978-1-884800-19-1
Often a dance of malapropism, jarring surrealist and pop imagery, violent pastiche and merciless non sequiturs, Wheeler's second book falls somewhere between John Ashbery and Charles Bernstein in its high-end schtick appropriation and baroque,...
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Susan Wheeler, Author, Susan Wheeler Decatur, Author Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $6.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-02-792740-5
The merriest of Christmases is celebrated by a family of chipmunks and their rabbit relatives in 12 cozy scenes depicting a past of simpler pleasures. Beginning with a triumphant trip home with the tree, dinner preparations and an old-fashioned...
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Susan Wheeler, Author . Univ. of Iowa $14 (94p) ISBN 978-0-87745-927-9
Combining pomo referential reach with spontaneity and non sequitur—"In any structure, you can obtain cable service"—Wheeler (Smokes
) spans time and place to get at the multiple interconnections of economy and the consuming self...
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Susan Wheeler, Author . Graywolf $15 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55597-420-6
Poet Wheeler (Smokes
; Ledger
) riffs on lingerers at the eponymous Chicago record shop in a novel with all the snazzy syncopation of the jazz at its heart. Cindy, a recent California transplant, is supposed to be studying art history at the...
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Susan Wheeler, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-25861-0
Enticingly strange, and only occasionally incomprehensible, the vertiginous cityscapes, dissonant songs and fractured chronicles in Wheeler’s verse, generously sampled in this selection from her four books, have attracted attention since her...
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Susan Wheeler. Univ. of Iowa, $18 trade paper (102p) ISBN 978-1-60938-127-1
"There is no knack for grief," writes Wheeler (Assorted Poems), but her far-reaching experimentation suggests that—through language—she's seeking one. Three wild sequences struggling with loss comprise this volume: In "The Maud Poems," a daughter...
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