The Golden Hour - Autumn House Press

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 six books of poetry: This Body of Silk (Northeastern University Press), The Wedding Boat (Owl Creek Press), The Leaving: New & Selected Poems (Autumn House Press), The Golden Hour (Autumn House Press), They (Turning Point Books), and Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems (Grayson Books). Winner of the […]

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