Karen J. Weyant on Suzanne Frischkorn

Frischkorn opens her book with a poem titled “Great Lash” — in many ways a poem that is the perfect prologue to this work. The girls in this poem wander cornfields that are “paved in asphalt” and walked barefoot on streets “laid with tar.” These girls, as described by a sharp decisive voice, say “We cut school and watched Foxes/We cut school and drank vodka/We cut school and got stoned/ did our makeup, walked the streets.”