Gift Unearned

About the Book

In Gift Unearned, Susan Ambrosino gives us a glimpse of the complications, hardships and triumphs of life. Her poems carefully explore many of life's turning points: from childhood to young adulthood, parenting, retirement, losing one's spouse, and old age. In her poems childhood is magic but can also be a wall. A young adult is wild like a monkey but also becomes beached. We all make choices, music sets us free, and trains carry us to places within ourselves. She talks about goals, college, resurrection, parties, war, getting drunk and backyard memories. Children can be comets, love is a problem, truth lies, misconceptions are everywhere and religion can be anything. Susan Ambrosino brings her readers the significance of the ordinary as well as the ecstatic. Her poems will inspire and entertain.

About the Author

For fifteen years Susan Ambrosino has been writing poems that deftly bring occurrences from every day life into detailed focus. Gift Unearned is her third book of poetry. She also published Teenage Woman Ancient Wife and No Certificate On The Wall. Susan Ambrosino spent her early childhood growing up in a tenement in Bronx, New York. The remainder of her childhood was spent in the Hudson River Valley of New York State. She was a psychology major at The State University of New York in New Paltz. She has two grown children and lives with her husband in New Jersey.