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The speaker in Ship of Light is a woman aware that she has entered the last phase of her life, where it is easy to view time only as a process that reverse-sculpts people, robbing an artist of her creativity or ending the life of a man devoted to helping others. But time also offers new possibilities, such as taking the first bite of a luscious persimmon or having toenails painted purple by a granddaughter. These poems balance a sense of loss with a belief in the capacity to discover wonder in the most unlikely places. PYP has given this poetry book a PG 14 rating for light language, moderate sensuality, and adult themes. "Ship of Light" by Susan Sailer is an engagement with necessary living: Do the singing now, voice asthmatic,/alto-pitched, praising April’s thousand/greens…. In her brave rendering of elegy after elegy, Sailer shows us the frailties of the body—but always coupled with the burgeoning of stunning language and unexpected new growth. These lovely poems honor the exuberance of the moment, the poignancy of change in a world where sorrow is always tied to movement: … movement of the woman walking, looking to the next new wind. There is no apathy here—this is a speaker that is . . . diving deep, fishing, tongue tangling with life. [Jan Beatty, an author whose books include The Switching/Yard (2013), Red Sugar, Boneshaker, and Mad River (Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize), all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Beatty hosts and produces Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WESA-FM featuring national writers. Awards include the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, two PCA fellowships, the Creative Achievement Award from the Heinz Foundation, and inclusion in Best American Poetry 2013. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, and teaches in the MFA program.] Susan Shaw Sailer’s poems are haunted by the complexities of time passing … poems of wonder, humor, and joy … often metrical, always musical .... This book is a “ship of light” indeed, and I will reread these poems many times. They are beautiful and they make me happy. [Maggie Anderson, author of four books of poems, most recently Windfall: New and Selected Poems from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is Professor Emerita of Kent State University and the founding director of the Wick Poetry Center and the Kent State University Press Wick Poetry Series.] Susan Sailer walks in beauty and reveals it to us. Sharp, pensive, and elegant, her collection leads us into and through terrible losses, no one set of circumstances like any other, each leaving its presence fully intact. That twinned apprehension—of a life fully lived while being lived—sings with eroticism, passion for community, humor, and outrage, offering us physical engagement with language, with poetry itself. [Judith Vollmer, Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and author of five books of poetry, most recently The Water Books, Autumn House Press 2012.]

After retiring from the Department of English at West Virginia University where she taught 20th Century British and Irish Literature, Susan Shaw Sailer completed an MFA in 2007 through the low-residency Program in Poetry at New England College. Born in St. Paul Minnesota, having attended and taught in public schools in Tacoma Washington, educated in Chicago Illinois, Sailer has lived in Morgantown, West Virginia since 1989.