The lyrics in Sue Standing’s False Horizon quietly celebrate the lust that is living, the lust that is memory. These poems, some of which are set in the far reaches of Africa and India, argue for the primacy of the present tense, a present tense that shines erotically out from under the beautiful drapery of a manifold rich and cultural world history. Therefore, False Horizons is a book full of sensations. Standing writes a wonderfully understated poetry about the intimacies of experience. She says, “I need a life that won’t diminish.”

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SUE STANDING's previous books of poetry include Amphibious Weather, Deception Pass, and Gravida. She is the recipient of several grants, including residencies from Hawthornden Castle, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She is Professor of English at Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts), where she directs the Creative Writing program.

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