Susan Cominos is a very accomplished poet. She won the Yehuda Halevi Poetry Competition in 2010. She also has won many other awards. Susan currently live in New York working as a freelance journalist.
Susan's poems are ecribed as some people as a "bit of a maze". I agree with that statement. Her poems are very interesting. From what I have read I sense that she likes to write about different religions or times of history. She wrote a poem called "Getting out of the Roman bath" that was truly baffling. Susan uses such creative words that it can get a little overwhelming to read. Also the detail that she puts into this poem is very interesting. When she writes "a girl who plans to hang mezuzahs by the bed, dangle instruments," you can almost imagine a young girl putting up a mezuzah above her bed. Her style of writing is very professional. She defiantly writes for adults, not children. I think that people appreciate her writing so much is because it is so rare. You don't read about a covet to be compared as "shalt fail to sway the sky," in a everyday newspaper. also you don't use the word covet to mean a desire or wish in your everyday speaking. I think that Susan likes you use unusual words in her writing. It makes you think and put the poems together more. Between the religious or historical content and the complex words that Susan uses in her poems your brain is working very hard by the end of her poems.
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