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This review is from: Second Skin: Stories & Poems (Paperback)
"These are haunted-and often haunting-poems and vignettes that bear witness with a surprisingly openhearted vulnerability to both collective and personal anguish: the damage visited upon the psyche of a young combat soldier during our venomous misadventure in Vietnam and the heartbreaking devastations of divorce. They are honest and honorable tales of human loss, grief, desire, anger and confusion by a poet who finds, as poets so often do, that it is language itself that offers both consolation and redemption."Steve Kowit, author of In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop, The Maverick Poets and The Dumbbell Nebula "The greatest gift life can give us is to love life: not only during the good times, but also in the face of death, pain and misfortune. The poems and stories in Second Skin evince the enduring capacity for joy that love brings. Hertzler examines everyday life as well as the horrors of Vietnam and the stinging death of a love with the same lens of astonishment and wonder-not denying evil or pain, but exploring them with a compelling clarity and compassion." "Second Skin provides ample evidence that poetry can be both accessible and powerful, that writing doesn't have to be obscure or difficult to make us think, to move us. Hertzler paints word pictures whose images stay with the reader long after the book is closed." Dorianne Laux, author of What We Carry, Smoke and The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (with Kim Addonizio)
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