Round One= Susan Cominos

 Sources Used:
 http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/138168/
http://m.triquarterly.org/bios/susan-comninos
http://m.triquarterly.org/poetry/deconstruction-workers
http://www.forward.com/articles/113731/


I learned that Susan Cominos is a journalist that also writes poetry. " She lives in New York, where she works as a freelance journalist." I learned that she uses religious influences in her poems a lot. " for a girl
who plans to hang mezuzahs by the bed, ". She uses these to represent herself, and how the religion has influenced her.   I also learned that she uses foreign words in her poems, like the poem: Pecan, rodef, clam.     " like a clam’s clipped momser, the locked maw talked open by fire,". In the title, she uses the word rodef, which is a Hebrew word for a child that is a threat to its mother's life. In the poem, she uses the word momser, which is a Yiddish word for an illegitimate child. She uses these different words to add effect, and add some of her voice to the poems she writes. I also learned that, like many poets, she talks about nature a lot in her poems. " Green’s the grace most of us would like." This line from Deconstruction Workers shows how she uses nature in her poems. She is saying that people like nature more than the things and objects that destroying the wilderness brings. Susan Cominos uses many techniques in her poetry that come from her own life, and her own experiences. She is religious, so she uses religious symbols to represent things in her poetry. She may have learned different languages when she was a child, so now she uses them in her poetry. She uses her poetry to reflect her own life experiences.