In a style as disarmingly casual as her daily saunters with her dog Lilith, Susan Schultz has assembled a delectable treasure chest of human encounters. Each walk is a poem, complete with volta-like turns, crafted with a photographer’s eye for the telling detail and a poet’s ear for the lyrical in everyday speech. Lilith Walks reminds us that even the most ordinary walks can take us outside ourselves, across political boundaries to the common grounds of aging, loss and mortality.
—Ann de Forest, Editor, Ways of Walking
Susan Schultz is a photographer, and that’s what she’s up to with her words here too, capturing luminously ordinary moments in clear-seeing prose. I live in this neighborhood too, know it all the better now (for better and worse), and will now pay more attention to the eucalyptus that coughs up tar, the Buddhas at odd angles in gardens, the artistic patterns in dumpster rust.
—Tom Gammarino, King of the World
Paperback: 110 pages
Binding: Perfect-Bound
Publisher: BlazeVOX [books]
ISBN: 978-1-60964-495-6
US$22
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