Election Night and the Five Satins Quitab Editions and "the need to name

and "the need to name on the table of my tongue

As a teacher and as a cook

as marketing campaign

and her poem "Legs" in this collection is a perfect example of this poet's great talent

Election Night and the Five Satins Quitab Editions and "the need to name"In this, Tim Suermondt's third full length book of poems, he uses the word beautiful sixteen times, each time the word as fresh and apt a choice as it is the first time. But that's not surprising if you know Suermondt's work. He is a poet who seems especially well fitted out to find moments of beauty in this world without sacrificing his wry understanding of the world's absurdities and complications. One might say, in fact, that Suermondt's alter ego