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? The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make many women think this book was written just for them." ? Susan Cheever? Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day's figures and memory's pattern. But she's headed towards love: the distant shore, the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten herself ? and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as well? triumphantly there." ? J. D. McClatchy? What rings with authenticity in Susan Kinsolving's poems is a lovely severity. . . . Sorrow and courage and pleasure register themselves in lucid distillations, like the purities of winter air." ? Anthony Hecht? ? Things just are,' Susan Kinsolving writes, in a matter-of-fact tone that belies a fiery intensity. In her poetry, commonplace things are imbued with a magical aura. Her wry wit clarifies as it deepens a tragic vision." ? Grace Schulman? In her first major collection Susan Kinsolving shows herself to be a poet of ravenous amplitudes, of wit schooled by feeling, of observations had owed by memory, and of landscape rising to what she calls ? an oblique sublimity' which is also the hallmark of her art." ? Edward Hirsch |