By turns chic, romantic, sardonic, droll, seductive, and in your face, Maureen Seaton is a cornucopia of attitudes and styles, a street-smart, deeply talented woman who wryly contemplates the charades that the self and the world assume - and how hard it is to stay in focus the morning after. It gets ...
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Two long poems, "Veteran's Day" and "Terza Rima," join several others, along with the title poem, in this volume of work produced in the last breaths of the 20th century by a poet who helped establish the bounds of poetry during the second half of it. Here she further elucidates the themes of her ca ...
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'All-American Girl is a lively mix of poems that reflect Robin Becker's sexual and social identity in startling and often magically apt metaphors. The Philadelphia of her girlhood, her ancestral links to the shtetls of Eastern Europe, the mesas of New Mexico, her loved landscape, Italy... meet and m ...
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