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Dailies and Rushes: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)

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Kinsolving's book is lovely. Although I wouldn't call her poems gripping, they are polished and beautifully restrained--at times, disturbing. Certainly not the typical first book of poems; I can see why it is getting so much attention.

This is simply a beautifully written collection of poems. It is listed as a first book, but Kinsolving writes with the grace and authority of a more established poet.

This is a wonderful, beautiful book of poems. I bought a copy a week ago, and now I'm buying copies as gifts for friends. This is a real poet who writes poems that help us give meaning to our place in the larger world. I've been thinking about these poems ever since I read them. Actually, I think the cover photograph (while is is artfully stunning) is a bit misleading. The poems are wise and mature and very thoughtful---not contemporary (in the bad sense of the word) but universal. Just lovely.

I was enthralled by Susan Kinsolving's poetry. There are poems in this collection that have stayed with me and will continue to do so throughout my life. One in particular, "Sotto Voce", captures the intense craving that only loneliness can conjure. I am so grateful to this brilliant poet for writing what I have felt. Thank you Susan Kinsolving!

It's the kind of book you must continue to read. You will not put it down until you are finished. And then you will go back and read it again. It's simple yet complex, light but heavy, and joyful yet sad. You feel an affinity to the author, her sorrows and joys permeate your psyche. It's what poetry is all about.