Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in Northern California. She holds degrees from Mills College (B.A.) and Sarah Lawrence College (M.F.A.), and has received numerous residencies to Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, including The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries.
"Cynthia Cruz's passionate, intense poems inhabit a landscape of
fates and fatal hungers, nightmares and dangerous desires, in which
enchantment and terror are so intimate that they become
one."--Reginald Shepherd "...the poems in this first collection are
almost all passionate and full of energy...Cruz says: 'I spent a
lifetime inside the destruction./ And like anyone, I made a world
someplace else.' These poems are that world: tough, sometimes hard
to swallow, but certainly compelling."--Library Journal "To enjoy
these poems...is to permit the elliptical mind of a poet deeply
grieved and disquieted, who is sifting through detritus and
artifacts presumably to find reconciliation, or a way to
heal."--Small Spiral Notebook "This is not a book about peacocks in
twilight nor should it be read in the parlor. These spare, intense
poems are both terrifying and excruciatingly tender, often both at
once. Rarely is mystery so lucid, rarely does poetry rush so
directly to the marrow. Ruin is a brilliant debut."--Thomas Lux
"Cynthia Cruz's passionate, intense poems inhabit a landscape of
fates and fatal hungers, nightmares and dangerous desires, in which
enchantment and terror are so intimate that they become
one."--Reginald Shepherd"...the poems in this first collection are
almost all passionate and full of energy...Cruz says: 'I spent a
lifetime inside the destruction./ And like anyone, I made a world
someplace else.' These poems are that world: tough, sometimes hard
to swallow, but certainly compelling."--Library Journal"To enjoy
these poems...is to permit the elliptical mind of a poet deeply
grieved and disquieted, who is sifting through detritus and
artifacts presumably to find reconciliation, or a way to
heal."--Small Spiral Notebook"This is not a book about peacocks in
twilight nor should it be read in the parlor. These spare, intense
poems are both terrifying and excruciatingly tender, often both at
once. Rarely is mystery so lucid, rarely does poetry rush so
directly to the marrow. Ruin is a brilliant debut."--Thomas Lux
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