Bøger af Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin's poems explore the sexuality behind the dance - the real and imagined parts, together with the emotional frustrations and physical pain of trying for some form of artistic perfection make these poems relevant to anyone. Lyn's pointed, sensual and well-balanced poems create and define a metaphor for life that is universally meaningful.

Like the mythic Persephone, these poems move between worlds of wild light and onyx darkness. Abducted by Hades, Persephone was kept captive in the underworld until her mother, Demeter, consumed with rage and sorrow, refused to let anything live or bloom. Grudgingly, Hades released her but only after she tasted the pomegranate he offered, a fruit that kept her bound to him for three months of the year forever. These poems move between such ecstatic glimpses of love, sex, family and that underworld of pain, loss and dark coldness between parents and children, siblings, lovers and strangers. The blues and despair in her poems, immediate and powerful as the worlds of any woman who moves from darkness and cold into the green world of rebirth, light and flowers, highlights the combination of eros, ebullience and triste, or sadness, a Lifshin trademark."

A generous new collection of only seemingly simple lyrics about childhood, love, sex, death, and memory by the populist woman poet.

August 2010, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is much in the news media after all these years. "Still what we have mostly missed in all the reporting is the intimacy of a poet''s voice who can bring the real right up inside us. Lyn Lifshin''s volume of straight forward, exact poetry in KATRINA does this. There is a clear ungarnished force to her words that gives us the chance to bring our own sense of loss, grief and compassion into the lives of those who have been drawn into such an event." - from the Preface.Lyn Lifshin is one of the most important award winning poetic voices of our times published as she is in most literary and poetry magazines. Her poem, NO MORE APOLOGIZING, has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women''s poetry movement," by Alicia Ostriker.