Marilyn L. Taylor

Beyond All Bearing

Arts & Literature

“Susan Spear's new collection of poems, Beyond All Bearing, encompasses matters of compassion, love, and human loss with insight and grace. Several of them are fearlessly experimental . . . and many are admirably rendered in traditional forms. But it's what they affirm to the reader--'God is slow / and slowly tenders me the strength to go'--that tends to stop the heart.”