The Hand that Cradles the Rock [Mass Market Paperback]

Rita Mae Brown (Author), Ginger Legato (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 78 pages
• Publisher: Diana Press (1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884470059
• ISBN-13: 978-0884470052
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,324,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ask me, do i love it . . ., July 28, 2002

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"midgetpoet" (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hand That Cradles the Rock (Paperback)

I adore Brown's work in general. She has an amazing mind and a charismatic way with words. Those of you who love her fiction first and foremost may not appreciate her poetry though, it is absolutely in a different voice then that in which her prose is written. But, as a poet, and from a poetry standpoint - it is concise, moving, and still very much the Rita we know and love. Definitely worth a read - mine is beat-up, dog-eared and very well travelled.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short little composite of early Rita Mae Brown., July 6, 2002

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Miss D. AwesomePants "Amazon Junkie" (Hoboken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hand that Cradles the Rock (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is a tiny paperback composite of Rita Mae Brown's early poetry (from the 1970's or maybe before!)
I am a huge fan of hers... and i loved many of her novels (In Her Day, Rubyfruit Jungle, Alma Mater, etc.) maybe i'm not a huge fan of poetry in general... but i didn't LOVE this book of poetry. It just doesn't have the same kind of vivaciousness that her novels contain. Each book seems to have a life of its own... but this poetry book... was just words on the page.
Rita Mae Brown is an awesome novelist, mostly because she creates such realistic characters... and these poems lack that.

(also, this book is out of print, and therefore really expensive. I would just recommend "In Her Day" instead.)