Books by Susan Gordon

Susan Gordon’s extraordinary language conveys us through death to dissolution and transfiguration, as she bears careful, caring witness to the body of a belly-shot doe day after day, week after week, month after month, through all seasons of the weather and the soul.  Time and again precise description breaks open into transcendent vision; beauty entwines with horror, both driving towards the “unraveling / of what comes / after everything has been undone.”  This is a masterpiece, a poem I will cherish and revisit for many years.--Jo Radner, author of Yankee Ingenuity on CD, Professor of Literature Emerita, American University, and Storyteller

Like the mirror chips in a rotating ball, these stories provide images of the shifting realities of a small world, Tempira, Guanacaste, before it became the trendy vacation destination and retirement paradise it is today.Delight in these intimate word portraits which paint honest, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes painful views of the human ironies and contradictions in relationships and experiences with people in the same community over a twenty-year period. The author was not a visitor in Costa Rica. It was her home.