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Suzanne Gardinier is also the author of the long poem The New World (U of Pittsburgh Press 1993), chosen by Lucille Clifton as winner of the Associated Writing Program's Award Series in poetry in 1992, and A World That Will Hold All the People (U of Michigan Press 1996), essays on poetry and politics.  She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation, teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Manhattan.

Suzanne Gardinier

"Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats's words, every rift is laden with ore."

—Adrienne Rich

"Suzanne Gardinier takes a centuries-old poetic form—the ghazal—and injects its trademark themes of love and longing with words, references, metaphors and images that recall a more modern age: Manhattan, a country house, her lover's bedroom, the daily news. The resulting poems elicit a distinctly modern sexiness and political resonance from the inherently lyrical, lilting and musical form.