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Houston, Texas – June 11, 2023 – Press Release:

Saint Julian Press is proud to announce Suzanne Nussey's new book of poetry, Slow Walk Home, to be published on August 15, 2024.  Where the sacred meets the ordinary, and intimate moments transform into timeless reflections, Suzanne Nussey’s poetry explores the meanings of house and home – as a place, an idea, a human body.
Slow Walk Home is a work of spiritual autobiography that accords its subject grace: that is to say, it turns away neither from her dignity nor from her abjection. It is brave. It is also, in moments, prayerful, using the technology of verse to wring the meanings from a set of simple phrases. We can meditate in and with it. Suzanne Nussey is undeniably a religious poet, as devout as she is heterodox – in tune with a tradition she is also radically remaking.
~Luke Hathaway
The Affirmations and Years, Months, Days
Without minimizing the complexity of the past, Slow Walk Home examines the narrow promises of mid-century social expectations against the speaker’s and the reader’s present-day awareness. The complacency of middle-class back yards is shattered by an air-raid siren; a stay-at-home mom protects her son by means of a heroic lie; mother-daughter bonds are tested and reforged; and a longing for spiritual certitude is relentlessly interrogated by doubt. Readers who recall the Cold War and feminism’s Second Wave will find much to recognize in this collection, which offers a deeply personal and illuminating window into the influences of the recent past.
~Anne Marie Todkill
Orion Sweeping
In Nussey’s sequence of poems, remembrance and domesticity expand organically into transcendence, a thoughtful woman’s love of family and memory enlarged – in a moment, without labor or academics – to include God and Time and things yet unseen.  Small things here are emblems of the great. The temporary is a palpable fragment of Eternity. Think of John Donne’s daughter through many generations, fully modern, yet standing upon the same dark diamond. 
~David Brendan Hopes
Peniel and The Ones with Difficult Names
In Slow Walk Home, the sacred and the ordinary meet to create a world that is both exquisitely intimate and quietly transcendent. Gradually, the poet reveals a life that is burdened by secrets and animated by mystery. Her poems, with their matter-of-fact tone and their unique and surprising metaphors, never flinch from the experiences they explore: death, illness, loss, doubt…motherhood, love, faith, redemption. Graciously, Nussey opens a door, guiding us into and through an inner sanctum lit by luminous language and lucid vision.
~Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Sanctuary, Vermont
Orison Poetry Prize winner
Suzanne Nussey holds a M.A. in creative writing from Syracuse University, where she studied under W. D. Snodgrass and Philip Booth. Canadian poet Dennis Lee mentored her at the University of Toronto. She has taught English and writing, earned a M.A. in pastoral counseling, and worked with new Canadians in economic development programs. Her poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays have appeared in a variety of Canadian and US magazines, anthologies, and on-line blogs. Working as a freelance writer and editor in the areas of religion, psychology, and health and wellness, she has also facilitated writing workshops for community groups and for unhoused women. Suzanne lives in Ottawa, Ontario, on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.
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Publication Date: August 15, 2024
Paperback:  $18.00
Publisher: ‎ Saint Julian Press, Inc.
Language: ‎ English
Paperback ISBN-13:  978-1-955194-29-7
eBook EPUB ISBN:  978-1-955194-30-3
Library of Congress Control Number:  2024939384
Paperback:  100 pages

 
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