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Suze Bienaimee: Pushcart Prize Nominee!<\/em><\/p>\n

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THOUGHTS ON SUZE BIENAIMEE’S POETRY
\n<\/strong>by Matthew Lippman, author of four poetry collections \u2014 American Chew, Salami Jew, Monkey Bars,<\/em> and The New Year of Yellow.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What has always impressed me about Suze Bienaimee\u2019s poetry is the way it moves\u00a0between sound and imagery. She is mesmerized by sound and, at its foundation, her\u00a0poetry is rooted there, in music. I think of the poet Robert Pinsky who has spoken and\u00a0written extensively on the necessity of poetry being sung.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suze Bienaimee\u2019s poetry\u00a0needs to be sung and yet, at the same time, lives very much on the page. It\u2019s an\u00a0expressive poetry that some comes right out of the heartbeat. What she does with her\u00a0voice, with that sound, is vary it through repetition and alliteration and broken lines in a\u00a0way that is singular, unique. I have never encountered a poetry like Bienaimee\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u00a0think about a guitar chord, comprised of three notes, and then think about the number\u00a0of inversions that the player can make on the fret board to get a sound, all with slight\u00a0variations, this is the poetry I am talking about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Bienaimee lives in New York and much of her poetry is inspired by what happens in the City. The imagery in her work, the sounds in her voice, are all informed by her work.\u00a0You might call her a regional poet, but that would be doing the poetry a disservice. Even\u00a0though her verse is rooted and grounded in the sidewalks, in the stop lights, in the cabs\u00a0and neighbors of her world, there is a universality to the writing which makes it so\u00a0appealing, so accessible and tremendously sublime. Yes, her work, as I have noted, is\u00a0sublime. She has worked hard to cultivate a voice and that voice belongs to us as much\u00a0as it belongs to her because of how open it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing that I think is essential to\u00a0poetry, which is successful, is an openness. There needs to be a way to relate to the\u00a0work. Ms. Bienaimee writes about technology, she writes about loneliness and love.\u00a0These are big topics and they feel completely authentic in her voice. Yet, at the same\u00a0time, one will read her work and think, Hey, that pertains to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suze Bienaimee is a fantastic poet. I have had the joy of working with her for many years\u00a0and I am always surprised and inspired by her work. There is a galvanizing force in the\u00a0language, in the way she creates a voice that transports the reader in heart and in\u00a0heartbeat \u2014 that tightrope between what is essential to the ear to convey emotion and\u00a0what is essential to the eye to convey emotion. At the center of her work there is\u00a0that \u2014 a wellspring of feeling that is undeniable. When reading her work I feel,\u00a0constantly, that I am in the presence of craftsperson \u2014 someone who takes great care in\u00a0the language to create make something beautiful, meaningful, and tight. It\u2019s an organic\u00a0poetry that has been cultivated with great care.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Lippman<\/a>, poet<\/span>
\n American Chew
\n<\/em>Salami Jew
\nMonkey Bars<\/em>
\n<\/em>The New Year of<\/em>\u00a0Yellow<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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AVAILABLE IN\u00a02018:<\/strong>\u00a0Artist Book\/Chapbook, Poems and Paintings<\/em> by Suze Bienaimee. Spectrum Contemporary, Publisher.\u00a0Pushcart Prize Nominee 2017 for Poetry, Barrow Street Journal.<\/p>\n

ART BY SUZE BIENAIMEE<\/strong>\u00a0(pronounced Suzi Be-in-AH-may):\u00a0is in public and private collections in New York City, across the United States and abroad. Suze Bienaimee is currently the\u00a0featured artist on\u00a0ArtNow.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— a website with the purpose of presenting artists’ work free from the chaos and clutter of the internet — fine art for inspiration, questioning, wonder…<\/p>\n

FOR INSPIRATION:\u00a0S<\/a>tudioSeeds.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Conversation\u00a0for inspiration\u2014 the seeds of creativity. What inspires artists, poets, environmentalists, scientists, doctors, historians, collectors \u2014 people?<\/p>\n

TWEETS:<\/strong>\u00a0Suze Bienaimee\u00a0<\/strong>@StudioSeeds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

INSTAGRAM: Suze Bienaimee\u00a0@<\/a>StudioSeeds_Inspire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

TRIBUTE:\u00a0JabberSping.com<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Suze Bienaimee is the guest blogger in a tribute poem in honor and in memory of James Lee Byars, Artist<\/p>\n

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