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Shelter

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Lisa Glatt will pull you into another world with this wonderful collection of poems. Glatt dares to juxtapose two subjects that are still taboo-sex and death. She weaves these together into a provocative portrayal of the obvious yet unspeakable relationship between two. I was so impressed and moved by this book that I bought copies for several friends.

This book is about so many things: The beauty of ugliness; the vulnerability of being alive; the things we all crave and how we mourn when we lose them. It is a wonderful book that is not to be overlooked. I'm eagerly awaiting Glatt's next book!

The amazing thing about Lisa Glatt's SHELTER is the transformation it goes through from beginning to end. In the first section, Glatt's perspective on love is whimsical and cynical as she recounts past relationships with Mr. Wrongs. SHELTER takes a 180 degree turn in the second section, which is dedicated to the death of the poet's mother. Poems like "Eggplant Dreams" and "The Body is in Charge" are poignant without falling into the pitfalls of sentimentality. The collection ends with a meaningful relationship and new awareness of life, with all its horrors and gifts.

This book by Lisa Glatt is the most profoundly sensuous book I have read in a long while. A treasure for readers of all ages.

These poems will transport you to their reality. They are the best poems Lisa Glatt has written yet and if you like poetry from any era, you will love this book.

Lisa Glatt is my favorite poet and I am so excited to have this new book to caress an cherish all night. Her poems are vibrant and vibrate on my lap. Shelter is the best book of the year! Buy it for pleasure and beautiful climaxes.

With her second book of poetry, published in 1999, Lisa Glatt has come a long way since Monsters and Other Lovers. The first book was one of release and admittance; in Shelter Glatt has a lesson for you, and the moral of the book is read and learn.

In every poem there is a message to be read and understood: in some cases it is a warning, in others a piece of info you can either accept or ignore.

Within these sixty pages is also a collection of "if you" poems: "If You Have Sex With a Married Man," "If You Have Sex With a Man Ten Years Your Junior," "If You Have Sex With a Graying Guy," and "If You Have Sex With a Stranger With One Ball."

Emotions are alive in this book - there is laughter, but there is also pain. While Shelter is not as dark as Glatt's first book, it is in no ways inferior, revealing her further talents as a poet.

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Lisa Glatt has the unique ability to blend into abrasive situations a sense of humor that challenges the reader not to fall into the conventional emotions that lend themselves in matters of love, death, adolescence and everything that falls between those moments. Glatt's poems allure you into a world forged together like the mother's cancer the collection chronicles: silently lethal and stunningly apparent.

Shelter is the rare book that gives you something new with every reading.

What does contemporary American poetry have in common with pot-bellied pigs? Nothing! This is precisely what we find in this book of poems by Lisa Glatt. There is no tradition in her "voice" and nothing we haven't heard before. There is so much one can take when she is baraged with poems about sleeping with every freak in her neighborhood. What next? The elevator boy? The homeless ex-clown? The zoo keeper? This book indulges in depravity and is not fit for human ears. Not recommended at all!