Poetry. Winner of the 2000 Green Rose Prize. In PERFECT DISAPPEARANCE, the much anticipated follow-up to Martha Rhodes' startling first book, we shift gears: the damaged child/woman has grown into a full-fledged adult who continues to speak for this singular "unkillable" life. Rhodes now enters new realms of the darkly erotic conjoined with the liberated sensibility of a survivor. Cagey, evasive, subservient, unappeasable, Rhodes animates her speakers with a voice full of grit and urgency, and the results are electrifying.
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"...suddenly the world is rendered profoundly unstable in these haunted and haunting poems." -- Gregory Orr
"Perfect Disappearance is the record of an odd, courageous, and very gifted consciousness, whose witness I admire with all my heart." -- Jean Valentine
“Perfect Disappearance is the record--so far--of an odd, courageous, and very gifted consciousness, whose witness I admire... -- Jean Valentine
"Perfect Disappearance is the record of an odd, courageous, and very gifted consciousness, whose witness I admire with all my heart." -- Jean Valentine
“Perfect Disappearance is the record--so far--of an odd, courageous, and very gifted consciousness, whose witness I admire... -- Jean Valentine
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Praise for At the Gate (Provincetown Arts Press, 1995)
"...These short poems, by turns savage, wry, mordantly witty, tender, stern, deluded, sane, read like a series of fragments, bits of mosaic; they duplicate on the page a sense of the past's being, piece by piece, recovered; they convey, devastatingly, the moment of a pattern's emerging; the little scenes and vignettes, the suspect tools of memory, cohere heart-stoppingly and absolutely into a narrative which fuses the damaged body to the divided heart..." (Louise Glück, from The Forbidden, Proofs and Theories; Essays on Poetry (Ecco Press)
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- The Woman With a Cubed Head (The New Issues Press Poetry Series) by Julie Moulds on page 53
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