Poems devoted to family and the physical world.
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"Voigt writes with a Southerner's devotion to family and a naturalist's devotion to the physical world . . . a stunning first collection"--Edward Hirsch, The Nation
"Her poems are luminous."--Library Journal
"Her poems are luminous."--Library Journal
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"First book of impressive technical and imaginative maturity." (Stanley Kunitz )
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Luminous, Specific, Evocative,
By afriKa wassersTein (Haifa & Addis Ababa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Claiming Kin (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (Paperback)
I read this collection in college 25 years ago, and it's never left me. Voigt's way with metaphor, physical description, the *feel* of emotions, is unique. Time and again, she chooses a simple adjective which somehow illuminates a physical sensation perfectly (like in the opening poem, foreshadowing the coming of Fall, "before the heavy drop of the apples", or the sense of being a middle child, writing to her mother, who "grew in the shady places, rootbound, without blossoms"). For years, I've read passages of these to friends, who typically react "Who IS this woman... and why have I not heard of her?" I know Voigt's other books, but this one remains a favorite for its clarity, intimacy and subtle profundity. I thank her for it.
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- The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English by Phillis Levin in Back Matter
- Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia by Sarah Kennedy on page 163
- Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers by Fred Chappell in Back Matter
- Writers on Writing (Bread Loaf Anthology) by Robert Pack in Back Matter
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