The Temporary Quitab Editions and the resulting smear and

and the resulting smear and shadow obscured some of

and Carolyn Forche

the reader's self

that Suermondt's alter ego is a Romanticist of both tender and heroic proportions

” her poems are a balm for the broken

The Temporary Quitab Editions and the resulting smear andClines The Temporary, though a chapbook, has scope. It packs a lot in a small space, which, in a sense, is the definition of poetry: a lot in a little or saying a lot in a few words. The subject matter is as broad as the Self, love, loss, time, and memory how love and loss shape Self through time and memory. Passion is the fire in which the Self is shaped, and burnt to ash. Memory is either lost or dim and, since transient, is, in fact temporary. The