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In Susan Firer’s The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies, snow drops, “with all their survivor ecstasies”, “windy caravans of lilacs”, and “Dali Lama-robed “ daylilies act as magnets to attract history—personal and historical—myths, language, facts, love, gratitude, prayers, beauty, and ”all the colors of death and sex.” Family oddities appear in this collection,  as well as Catholic rituals, saints, and ghost poets. Always ghost poets: Whitma...

In Firer's poems, place, often the western shore of Lake Michigan, provides an imagistic and sonic landscape in which language explores the 'empire of skin' with its daily happinesses and sorrows, gifts and losses. Often blue light illuminates these poems and frequently the language of a Catholic childhood shows up. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams's poems say 'Use everything, ' and Firer does: receipts, anatomy, astronomy, clothes poles...

Wild and freely imaginative poems by this Whitman- and Neruda-influenced poetcelebrate the life of the Milwaukee area where she lives.