Caddish

Poetry. CADDISH mourns dishonorable modes of historical masculinity by celebrating our slutty embodiment in a studied poetry that is hyper-literary, arch, and punk rock. In this book Ezra Pound goes in drag as H.D.'s sister and illuminates the modernist poem in its full feminist promise--a gendered-undoing that Modernism promised even as it so often performed masculinized pomp. Involved with the textual layers--the wild dress--of poets from the Pre-Raphelites through the Beats and sounding the DIY of Punk and Pussy Riot, we have here a feminist poetry ready for the ecological age of gender's superfluity.--Alicia Cohen

To be in CADDISH is to be delightfully awash in some strange type of dystopia where the language one swims in is so clear; clever; and refreshing that one doesn't want to stop bathing in its vocabulary that exposes the contradictions we live in and are pained by, in this post-capitalism period. Will we escape the cataclysm to come? CADDISH's beautifully constructed chaos urges us to embrace the complexity as a beacon from a lighthouse. Susana Gardner is our Siren, but with the difference that her song may just lead us to shore.--Joe Ross

The fierce, audacious poems in Susana Gardner's CADDISH weave gorgeous forms and lithe melodies out of broken language and broken love (for what else is a poet to do?). The enthused, garment-rending drama of these 'intense smutty darling dreams' will leave you...quite...cuntstruck. 'Toot allure!'--Nada Gordon

A good passionate, ocean-tossed read.--Tom Pickard