Catherine Chandler

Beyond All Bearing

Arts & Literature

“There is so much to admire in Susan Spear's Beyond All Bearing--her mastery both of free verse and of forms such as the pantoum, the triolet, the rondeau, the villanelle, and the sonnet; her precise delineations of the natural world; and her lively wit and playful humor. One cannot help but be profoundly moved . . . and although the underlying theme of loss is ever-present, the work is nonetheless suffused with faith, hope, grace, wisdom, and above all, love.”