Round One Susan Cominos

The biography is extremely short and doesn't really provide any information about Susan as a person but more as a writer and of her accomplishments. Clearly Susan is a hard working poet, I doubt any lazy poet could achieve the title of "the winner of the 2010 Yehuda Halevi Poetry Competition run by Tablet Magazine." While reading her poetry, one thing I quickly realized was the inability to comprehend. I had to go back and re-read her poems multiple times to even begin to understand any meaning of it. Her vocabulary is way above average and she prefers to use a hidden meaning style. In a review of her poem Getting Out of the Roman Bath, Jake Marmer says "The poet's meanings cannot be, as it were, nailed down." I had less trouble understanding this poem than understanding deconstruction workers. This is more of an opinion than a fact, but I assume she is a patient person because of the choice of her words. I can't imagine it taking a small period of time to put words like hers into her poems. From reading her poems I think she is most likely religious, because of her mentions of Christianity in 2 of them. In Getting Out of the Roman Bath one line says "-a crucifix at the door" and in Deconstruction Workers one line says "become a Christian sprig." Her poem Deconstruction Workers also gave off the impression that she's into nature. She mentions plants multiple times and even references an animal at one point.