Böcker av Susan Hahn

This is a lighthearted collection of true, humorous short stories that have happened to the author and her husband. Perhaps serious at the time, she could see the humor in their adventures. When she told the stories, people would laugh and tell her she needed to write a book. So, she did!If it brings a smile to the reader's face then the author has accomplished what she set out to do. In this world of seriousness, gloom and doom, she wants everyone to know it's okay to laugh at yourself and try to find the humorous side of about any situation.

Holiday is a book of poems chiseled into public and private calendar markers, where the unfinished self seeks resolution, desperately and defiantly, through either completion or negation. The poems are filled with unflinching irony and an intelligence that both celebrates and laments personal, mythic, biblical, and historical events.

Redolent of Chicago's ethnic culture, Susan Hahn's intensely personal lyrics emerge from the world of an extended Jewish family and its neighbors. The voices of these immigrants are imbued with the profound effects and memories of the journey 'From a patrolled town in the Ukraine/to Baltimore on a boat, then a train to Chicago.' Hahn's poetry is about love and the lack of love, about rejection, and about other forces-generational, political, social, and sexual-that overwhelm individuals and cause them to limit themselves both physically and psychologically.

The poems collectively build up a novelistic world even as they individually retain all the intensity of focus associated with lyricism. Hahn's fevered book of human emotions becomes a powerful rumination on love, aging, and mutability in general.

A collection of poetry that wrestles with the elemental and enduring challenges of the human condition: What can we use from our spiritual heritage? How should we find relief? How, after it all, do we live?