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by: Lyn Lifshin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9781882983834
ISBN: 1882983831
Label: March Street Pr
Manufacturer: March Street Pr
Number Of Pages: 109
Publication Date: 2002-10
Publisher: March Street Pr
Sales Rank: 3792170
Studio: March Street Pr
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent, but did you expect anything less?
Lyn Lifshin, A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead (March Street Press, 2002)
Lyn Lifhsin's poems are an almost unbearable compulsion. They are not always consistent, and they are not always perfect (as no poet's output ever is), but they are always readable, at the least.
A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead is the dissection of a long-ago relationship. An old lover has died, seemingly unexpectedly, and the speaker seems to have taken it worse than she ... Read More
Rating: - The Beloved Dead
Ms. Lifshin has perfected her craft in this latest collection of her poems. Although her words seem plain and to the point, there is a wealth of the unstated. She evokes images and ideas in terse, uncomplicated language. Each of her words does the work of twenty.
As I read these poems, I was overpowered by the implied grief of The Survivor, yet there is a lack of mawkish sentimentality or easy pathos.
Lifshin states that which is, in bare bones candor. Her rhetorical style ... Read More
Rating: - Dark Magic
The poems in Lyn Lifshin's newest book are quite disturbing, and at the same time one cannot put them down. The unbearable anguish endured by the principal in these poems, over the loss of a loved one, is bad enough, but that it is borne in such stoicism and intrepidity, makes one wonder how a person could bear such superhuman mental suffering.
And yet the "Voice" in these poems points out the way of working out a cure of the pain, at the same time, in the past, in the present and future, as ... Read More
Rating: - Lyn Lifshin does it big . . . Again!
Once, at a party, an old poet told me that there are only two
things to make poems about-- sex and death. In subsequent
years, I have noticed that there are frequennt references of the
two themes in poetry, including many of my own.
So when I got ahold of a review copy of Lyn Lifshin's latest
book, I took special note of the title; "A New Film About a Woman
in Love with the Dead." I read the poems, and I started
wondering just how dead these dead really ... Read More
Rating: - Comments on Book
THERE SHOULD BE AS MANY WORDS FOR LONELINESS
as Sears' colors close to rose: Fiesta pink,
dusty rose, camellia, terra cotta, pale rose blush,
pebble, coral light, Tahitian rose, ok coral,
Damask rose, pink carnation, there should be
shades of loneliness like musky rose, petal
dust, daisy pink, pale rose blush, maypole
pink-I want more choices, nuances, subtly
different as desert blood from flambeau peach,
Santa Fe peach, shrimp, strawberry, English
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