About the Book
In Sue Ellen Thompson’s fourth book of poems, the acclaimed poet explores relationships between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, the past and the present.
Praise for The Golden Hour
…a book of both courage and the finest sort of craft: elegant, wild, beautifully disciplined, seemingly effortless, stunningly precise…
—B. H. Fairchild
Sue Ellen Thompson is wonderfully alert to what may be poetry’s most difficult subject: the happiness of ordinary life.
—Lawrence Raab

Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of The Leaving: New & Selected Poems and The Golden Hour, both published by Autumn House; she is also the editor of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, First Edition. Her work has been included in the Best American Poetry series and recently won a Pushcart Prize. She has been a Robert Frost […]
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