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Other Books Written or Edited by Sue Brannan Walker

Here are some books written or edited by EIC, Sue Brannan Walker. Note that volumes edited by Walker were likely published by Negative Capability Press, whereas poetry books authored by Sue were published by a range of presses (not us). This page will be updated in the future. Click on the covers to purchase.

Frederick W. Bassett reviews Dr. Sue Walker's "Let Us Imagine Her Name"

Frederick W. Bassett reviews Dr. Sue Walker's "Let Us Imagine Her Name"

I have long admired Sue Brannan Walker for her accomplishments as publisher and editor of
Negative Capability Press as well as her scholarship and creative writing. For twenty years, I’ve
been piecing together her life from fragmented sources, and I’m deeply touched, perhaps deepest
of all, by her ongoing search for names that will fill the lacunas in her own existential
manuscript.

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CARSON MCCULLERS: ASTUTE AND UNACKNOWLEDGED PHILOSOPHER OF LOVE

CARSON MCCULLERS: ASTUTE AND UNACKNOWLEDGED PHILOSOPHER OF LOVE

Tennessee Williams, in “Some Words Before,” a preface to Virginia Spencer Carr’s definitive biography, The Lonely Hunter said Carson McCullers had the “tongue of angels,” and this gave her the power to sing the lonely heart and make it an anthem. Since music and love are primary considerations in her work, let us add that McCullers is an astute and unacknowledged philosopher of love, one whose wisdom and understanding preceded…

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