The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself

The Empty Notebook began its life as a literal metaphor for a few weeks of what Susan Thomas thought was writer's block, but was really the struggle of an eccentric persona to take over her working life. It won. For the next three years everything she wrote came to her in the voice of the Empty Notebook, who, as the notebook began to fill itself, became rather opinionated, changed gender, alternately acted as bully and victim, had bizarre adventures in exotic locales and developed a somewhat politically-incorrect attitude. It then began to steal the voices and forms of other poets and immortalized itself in various poetry reviews. It is now thrilled to collect itself in one volume.