Cloud Pharmacy

Cloud Pharmacy is a book of lyric fire. In our epoch of quick and shallow literary conversation it is rare to come across such level of attentiveness as one finds in this book. -Ilya Kaminsky

In a central sequence, Rich explores nineteenth-century photographer Hannah Maynard’s proto-surrealistic images, looking in grief-heavy places for revelation. The result is wonderfully strange and unsettling; this is Rich’s most haunting collection yet. -Kathleen Flenniken

Rich’s gorgeous poems affix moments, both magnificent and minute. And in exquisite and playful poems, a pageant of a life in process develops before our eyes. -Oliver de la Paz

Susan Rich is the author of three previous collections of poetry. She lives in Seattle, Washington.