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