Background
Mitchell grew up in New York City, New York and now lives in Boca Raton, Florida.
( How do we discover our deepest desires, those that at o...)
How do we discover our deepest desires, those that at once elude and define us? In Erotikon, award-winning poet Susan Mitchell invites us to make that discovery -- and in the process, to understand our true selves. In language both staggeringly beautiful and wonderfully mischevious, Mitchell explores the primal , transformative power of our sexual appetites. Drawing us in like a lover through her sensual world, she moves from seduction to surrender to symbiosis and the ultimate communion we long for in our lives on earth.
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Mitchell grew up in New York City, New York and now lives in Boca Raton, Florida.
From Georgetown University, and was a Doctor of Philosophy student at Columbia University.
She has a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Wellesley College, an Master of Arts She has taught at Middlebury College and Northeastern Illinois University, and currently holds the Mary Blossom Lee Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. "The Aviary" excerpt "Children"s Ward: New York Hospital" "Havana Birth" "Night Music" "Pussy Willow (An Apology)" "Wind/Breath, Breath/Wind".
( How do we discover our deepest desires, those that at o...)