The Alchemist's Kitchen

White Pine Press, Spring 2010

"... From The Alchemist's Kitchen spills an abundance of the worlds fruits, herbs and pastries, gestures of hospitality and regard, for Susan Rich is a poet who writes in the midst of things, and out of a searing awareness of loss and what it means to be spiritually awake, to behold human life in all its possibility, pathos and transience and yet say yes." - Carolyn Forché

"These are poems of praise and wonder graced by a delicate touch."- Brian Turner

"Kaleidoscopic curiosity, powerfully kinesthetic language, and an encompassing compassion range in this abundant collection, in which personal and public realms serve as equal alembics for the distillation of both materia and light." - Jane Hirshfield