Talk (for RDS and JDS)

We hear Rush Limbaugh
Has an oxycontin jones.
Daddy can't swallow
And you think of crushing pills:
Toxic transmission.

Untitled 10/24/03

Flying through Detroit
The air a phyllo of rose
I think of your mouth
Of your pink gullet, swollen,
Air only to gasp: "enough."

Untitled 10/24/03

Bumped up to first class
I scan the horizon and
Contemplate karma.

BIO:
Susan Squier is Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English at the Pennsylvania State University. Previously she was Associate Provost ('86-'89) and Acting Director of Women's Studies (1991) at SUNY Stony Brook. She was a scholar in residence at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in February-March 2001; Visiting Distinguished Fellow, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, June-July, 1992; and Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Melbourne, Australia, 1990-1991. Her books include Babies in Bottles: Twentieth-Century Visions of Reproductive Technology; Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City ; the co-edited collections Playing Dolly: Technocultural Figurations, Fantasies and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction and Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation and the edited collection Women Writers and the City: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Her edited collection, Communities of the Air: Radio Century, Radio Culture, was published by Duke University Press in 2003. In fall 2004, Duke University Press will publish her most recent book, Liminal Lives: Towards an Ethics for the Frontiers of Biomedicine.

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