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Seeking the Hook: New & Selected Poems

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This collection of poems is refreshing and speaks to a wide range of human emotions. You'll find yourself laughing at "The Blackberry Authorities," wincing at "Seeking the Hook" and crying at "Separation." Lipsitz's poetic descriptions of growing up in Brooklyn are humorous and heartwarming. This is my favorite collection of poetry. And best of all, I CAN UNDERSTAND IT :-) (How refreshing!) I just found out it is available through the Duke University Press.

Lou Lipsitz has a wonderful gift for transforming deeply-felt emotions into colorful imagery, often profound and sometimes humorous. His work is accessible in that I feel that shock of recognition that comes whenever I see my own deep feelings captured by another, but also quite unique and surprising--he takes those feelings to places I have never been...

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Seeking the Hook is a poignant collection of poems about everyday life. Lou Lipsitz writes with a combination of heartbreaking clarity, pure wisdom and delightful humor. I absolutely love these poems.

Seeking the Hook by Lou Lipsitz moved me. It is a very personal kind of poetry, accessible and beautifully written. I was surprised by how much I liked it.

Lipsitz's poems pack a punch: carefully crafted to appear simple, they are nonetheless linguistically rich and emotionally charged. Like all great poets, his work gains power and depth upon repeated readings, so buy a copy and keep it handy. Although there is deep sadness here, there is also a clear love of living, the full embrace of Life with all its joys and burdens.

These poems are tales of human experience, beautifully expressed and complete in
the description of the often unresolved situations we know all too well. It is a pleasure to feel the courage of another's self-expression, and the poems are encouragement to strive for deeper, more intimate encounter in one's own life.