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Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)

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These poems really touched me in that way that makes me wish I had written them myself - but glad that she did because I could never do them the same service. Salt is such a great motif in this collection. Salt like the way women sweat. Like that taste, sometimes pleasant sometimes painful of it on your lips. I ordered another copy. There's a man I'm seeing that needs to read this book.

Ashley's first collection is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary American poetry. Her sight is unusual and strong; in these poems exist humor, landscape, monologue, strong and compelling narrative, a touch of the metaphysic, an attentive compassion and care, a tenderness as well as a brutality, enticing musics, the lyric, an eye toward the sublime. The poems are varied and yet compelling as a group, well-rendered and taut. Ashley's voice is powerful and distinct. Read Salt.