Sometimes it is right to judge a book by its cover. The cover of Susan McCabe’s I Woke a Lake (UP Colorado, 2025) is a deep blue celebration of jellyfish, evoking the jellyfish experience that plays such an important role in H.D.’s life and work.
McCabe’s poems explore the power of landscapes and embodiment–both human and inhuman–as they encounter images and emotions of change, uncertainty, and loss.

McCabe is the author of the recent double biography, H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism.