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DARK SUMMER
Molly Bendall
POETRY
SERIES
70
pp.
$19.95 cloth (1-881163-29-6)
$11.95
paper
(l-881163-30-X)
Bendall lets loose unidentifiable viruses
in
the aesthetic world oj posed
oppearances: poetry, ballet, sculpture, painting, and dressing well.
She weights what stands forth with what
is
withheld.
. . .
Such ontological
queasiness
is,
of course,
up
to date;
it's
Djuna Barnes,
it's
Colette, made
current.
- Poetry
There
is such a sweet
eroticism to
Dark Su m mer
that only with a start does
a reader realize that some of these lines are
so
sharp they have already
drawn blood.
-Bin Ramke
KINGDOM COME
Jim Simmerman
77 pp.
$19.95 cloth (1-881163-26-1)
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Jim Simmerman'sfinest poems.
.
.are astonishing moments of empathy and
generosity to others. Simmerman sounds like a young American Philip
Larkin in some of these poems.
-Den ver Qu arterly
If forced
to
compare [Simmerman]
to
another contemporary poet, I'd have
to
posit a composite: Bill Knott (for playful inventiveness) plus Marilyn
Hacker (for forma l competence) plus Philip Levine (for his good heart). If
that seems like an unlikely aesthetic mix
to
dwell in one poet, such are the
surprises in these poems.
AFTER A SPELL
Nance Van Winckel
-Sonora Review
78
pp.
$19.95 cloth (1-88 11 63-24-5)
$11.95
paper
(1-881163-25-3)
Like all successful spell casters, Nance Van Winckel knows just what
to
offer, just what
to
withhold. And through these assured, finely crafted
poems, we follow her brilliant summons into all the worlds of "after-ing":
desire, pursuit, the shaping of time.
.. .
-Linda Bierds
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