Customer Reviews

Late (American Poets Continuum)

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This book, Woloch's third, is full of tenderness, spirit, and sensuality. For all the deep losses, humiliations, and conflicted desires and impulses, it is a book of mature modern-day love poems, love of family and place, friends and lovers, with a knowing eye on the price of such loving, paying the price, and moving on, loving again. These are poems about living bravely, resisting bitterness, accepting that happiness is forever endangered, an understanding reinforced through reoccurring images of the ephemeral, birds and ashes. Woloch's lyrical, emotive voice resonates naturally through a range of poetic forms and is above all generously humane.

Cecilia Woloch's latest poetry collection is a deep plunge into the rich dark parts of life and language--without ever losing joie de vivre. I recommend this book to anyone who is pining, frustrated, thrilled, exhausted or hungry. Forceful and delicate at the same time. Brava to the poet and her passionate suitcase!

Deeply felt and finely crafted: these descriptions come to mind when we read the poetry of Cecilia Woloch. The poems are moving and intense. I strongly recommend this work, and her earlier books as well. One of our outstanding younger poets! -Kathleen Spivack-

I agree with the "never" reviewer, unless you are a personal friend of hers, there is nothing to recommend here, no talent, no insight, no sense of the language, no deep probes, -- in short, mere vanity exercises.

why would a writer think their own personal drama's are "poetic"? this book was one personal trauma after another and was not worth reading. i can't believe that other reviewers found it to be good, obviously, they must all know each other and sleep with each other. why else would they write that something is good when in fact it put me to sleep. i hated this book.

More embarassiing trivia from this overated poet. Certainly not even worth picking up.