D. S. Butterworth

Slender Warble

Arts & Literature

“In Susan Cowger’s deeply satisfying poems, spirit infuses the flesh of things to renew our love for the ardency of the given world. Even in simple actions, like peeling and eating fruit, everything is always at stake, at once present and ultimate. . . . A back becomes a landscape, then the shape of breath, and finally the shape of a promise—these poems enact the transfigurations of imagination and celebrate the distinctness and shared life of our experience.”