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Hypatia of Alexandria (355–415 CE) the Egyptian Neoplatonic philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician is often credited as the first female mathematician.
Endorsements
Susan Andrews Grace’s poetry is fiercely intelligent with biting dashes of wit and playfulness. Andrews Grace loosens the historical stranglehold on Hypatia’s legacy and revitalizes this important thinker in one dazzling, ‘vastly feminine cosmos.’”
—Sylvia Legris, author of Garden Physic and Nerve Squall
The ‘wake’ (a vigil for the dead) floats in the long ‘wake’ of Hypatia’s death. In terms of style, Andrews Grace takes great care with the page, with spacing and indentation, delighting the reading eye. Here, she has written such elegant poems—recalling, for me, the grave style and timeless matter of H.D.’s later poetry.”
—Hilary Clark
REVIEWS
Part lament, part eulogy, part history lesson, part biography, Hypatia’s Wake is much broader than a series of poems and facts about a remarkable woman who, as Grace puts it, “fell into history’s abyss.” It is about women, invisibility, and the way we’ve been ignored and under-valued throughout the centuries. In reclaiming Hypatia’s story, Grace argues, we reclaim our own: “Hypatia’s ghost survives. / Remember.”For full review: https://miramichireader.ca/2023/01/hypatias-wake-by-susan-andrews-grace/
Black Bear Review: https://blackbearreview.ca/writing/writers-den/hypatias-wake-book-review-by-carina-costom/
Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being
Imagining how the philosopher imagines is one way to read and learn a philosophy and is especially suited to the practice of poetry. Sometimes poetry has the ability to be the reality when philosophy can only describe it. Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being marches through the seasons as Jia-li, a mountain woman, and a girl philosopher inhabit their cosmos, sluicing philosophy of antiquity through twenty-first century existence. They imagine the world as the sages may or may not have.
Signature Editions ISBN:978-1927426-04-3April 2013
Review of Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being by Bill Neumire in Vallum:
Review by Steve Locke in Prairie Books Now: http://www.signature-editions.com/index.php/reviews/single_review/philosopher_at_the_skin_edge_of_being_prairie_books_now
Love & Tribal Baseball
Love & Tribal Baseball is a tour-de-force that employs the mythical properties of baseball in a meditation on “tribe” and “tribal love,” both personal and societal. The positions of the game are iconographic; and the players, literally, are playing the game of their lives. Love, memory, genetics—all are seen through the framework of the game. We are drawn into this vision and take our place in the meditation, just as “the outfielder dreams, her glove empty.”
BuschekBooks ISBNs: 978-1-894543-41-5 1-894543-41-6 112 pages 6 x 9 inches $15.00 Cdn/$12.00 U.S. trade paperback October 2007
FLESH, A NAKED DRESS
Susan Andrews Grace brings her singular voice and vision to her long-awaited third collection of poetry. This is an exuberant exploration through six finely-tuned poetry sequences that are at once playful and serious - irreverent and spirited. Andrews Grace is fearless as she enters deserts both real and mythical while evoking dialogues with such figures as Erasmus, Thomas More and Martin Luther. Here is a poetry that crackles with intelligence and verve and draws us in with a language of contemplation and complaint; here is a voice that is wise, cunning and musical. Andrews Grace's unceasing imagination and her unique sense of poetic inquiry give us startling new ways of looking at personal choice and ideas of faith.
Hagios Press ISBN 0-9739727-1-8 · Paperback · 8." x 5." · 112 pages $16.95 (CDN) / $14.95 (US) · Release Date: April 2006 (out of print)
FERRY WOMAN’S HISTORY OF THE WORLD
With lyric intensity and earthy humour, Susan Andrews Grace moves into and through the history of a woman, the history of women and the authority of text itself, to knit together this web of poems which celebrate spiritual liberation and a true historical inheritance.
Paperback: 223 pages, Publisher: COTEAU BOOKS (Jan 1 1998) ISBN-10: 1550501291 ISBN-13: 978-1550501292 (out of print)
WATER IS THE FIRST WORLD
Water is the First World is a perceptive collection of quietly assertive poems about women’s nurturing roles in the cycles of life.
Coteau Books ISBN: 155050018X Pub. Date: January 1991 (out of print)