Praise for Cures Include Travel   and The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World

“I admired her talent years ago, and this book makes it clear that she has grown into a mature and accomplished poet."
                                                      
                                                        --- Linda Pastan

“Cures Include Travel will take you places you didn’t know you wanted to go, and then it will set you down quietly in front of the essential task of being who you are.”

                                                      --- Pamela Alexander

"From the boldly erotic to the elegiac --- Susan Rich gives us a collection of poems sensual yet exact in their language, generous in the range and power of their emotion."

                                                     --- J.M. Coetzee

"Each time I read one of your Bosnian poems,  I feel that you are giving me my emotions back, objectified but beautiful,
and it's such a unique experience for someone who feels the war you write about as 'her own'."

                                                    --- Lejla Mulalic

 "Susan Rich writes gorgeous lyrical poetry which so courageously tells us the truth about the world, tells us the world is much larger than we Americans usually like to admit. Her beautiful ear, her fierce attention to detail, her deeply human empathy inspire me and make me glad. I am  glad, no --- thrilled --- that there exists such a unique and memorable voice writing today. "
                                                  ---  Ilya Kaminsky

“These poems will wound and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial. Rich is a caring citizen of every heart-land.”

                                               --- Naomi Shihab Nye

“Susan Rich raises a fine lyric voice concerned with questions of travel. This is a fine and charming debut.”

                                               --- Garrett Hongo