Suzanne Gardinier (born 1961 in

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) is an American

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. She is a recipient of the

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Life

Gardinier grew up in

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. She completed her B.A. at the

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in 1981, and her MFA at

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, in 1986. She is the author of a long poem called ''The New World''. She teaches at

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, is a member of

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, and lives in Manhattan. Her work appears in ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and AGNI.

Awards

''The New World'' won the

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's Award Series in poetry in 1992. Suzanne has also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the

Lannan Foundation The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of awards and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation. Established in 1989, the awards are meant "to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional ...

, and the Kenyon Review Award for Excellence in the Essay.

Work

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Poetry

* ''Usahn: Ten Poems and a Story'', (Grand Street Books, 1990) * ''The New World'', (Pittsburgh 1993) * ''Today:101 Ghazals'', (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008) * ''Dialogue with the Archipelago'', (Sheep Meadow Press, 2009) Iridium and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010)

Essays

* * * ''A World That Will Hold All the People'' (University of Michigan Press 1996)

Anthologies

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Reviews

SOMETIMES it seems sweetness exists in a voice. A child who sang, for whom life had no business being sweet. "I had the fortune to sing well, and to sing in the church choir from the age of 5 until I was 16," said the young poet Suzanne Gardinier, whose new book of poems was awarded the yearly Pitt Poetry Prize by the University of Pittsburgh Press, who in it has taken on the choral voices of both city and land, as she circles the 50-mile radius from the foot of the statue of Columbus in Columbus Circle, and then out through New Jersey, New York and Long Island, calling back the ghosts of harvests past and trades untenable, and the souls of new immigrants just coming. It is a book that does not look flinchingly at violence, whether between schoolchildren for whom nobody "turned a face to them judged/ their dispute wiped their cheeks sent them back to their lessons," or the men who cruelly, sensuously fight one another outside bars, the soldiers who forget even the old Greek sensuality of why they are fighting.

References

External links

Fruitful Place/Perishing World
* ttp://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/24/ghazals/ "The Ghazal: A Poem of Longing" Angela Kim, APRIL 26, 2008, American Public Radiobr>''Suzanne Gardinier'', Sheep Meadow Press''Suzanne Gardinier. Sag Harbor, NY.'', NYPL Digital Gallery
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