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Artist As Alice: Portrait of a Photographer's Life (Bright Hill Press Poetry Award Series, No. 11) (Bright Hill Press Poetry Book Award Series)

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This book is brilliant! Cummings weaves a haunting and mesmeric spell. What astonishes me is how all the poems, though they come from different personae, are one piece, one texture--of earth and animal, field and fur, radiant dream and the chemical in a developing vat--woven from the fragments of almost otherworldly human lives. These poems, with their occasional surreal imagery and startling metaphors, transport me wholly into an alternate reality--another kind of rabbit hole. Time, loss, life, death--these permeate, but always tied to the particular feminine sensibility, the various faces of Alice as woman and artist. Cummings pulls me totally into Alice's world.