Susan Hawthorne reads poetry from her book Sacking of the Muses.
Endorsements
What Susan Hawthorne has attempted should alone win laurels; what she has accomplished - through vision, scholarship, skill, labor, and time - is impressive; and the result of her audacity, is - in both the original and modern usage of the word - 'awesome'.
—Robin Morgan, author, poet, activist and recipient of the US National Endowment for the Arts Prize in Poetry
Susan Hawthorne understands myth, questions myth and then uses the power of myth for her own purposes. That is what poets do.
—Suniti Namjoshi, fabulist and author of Feminist Fables
A poet with a fascination for ancient languages, Hawthorne reads the oracles in these tongues, translating them so that we may raise our shoulders and dance our history, our meanings woven anew into the past. Everything she touches forever after shines.
—Donna Snyder, poet and author of The Tongue Has Its Secrets
Reviews
If you should choose to read The Sacking of the Muses, in addition to being treated to innovative poetry, you will also receive an education in various mythologies and languages, including Greek, Roman (Latin) and Sanskrit.
Read the full review here.
—Medusa Coils