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Suzanne Cleary's The Odds is about chance: crazy luck, bad luck, about the luck of the draw, and what we make of that draw. Through arresting imagery and surprising turns, these narrative and contemplative poems examine the work of holding a job, of making art, of making sense of our historical moment. There is mortality and there is humor. There are references from Angie Dickinson to Edward Elgar. Cleary is a poet for whom everything feels, sometimes against the odds, connected.

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Suzanne Cleary is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Crude Angel (2018). Beauty Mark was chosen by Kevin Prufer as winner of the 2012 John Ciardi Prize. Her chapbook Blue Cloth was chosen by Marilyn Nelson and Robert Cording as winner of the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her other awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her poems appear in anthologies including Best American Poetry and in journals including The Atlantic, Poetry, Southern Review, Manhattan Review, Poetry International, and Poetry London. She is Core Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse University. Her website is suzanneclearypoet.com

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