In Andrea Hollander Budy's third full-length collection, the poet's family history is ranged against remarkable poems about Auden, Larkin, and Dickinson, as well as painters Munch and Vermeer.
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Budy's impeccable conversational diction does what a poem should do: raises the hairs on the nape of your neck. --Maxine Kumin
... a lovely blend of qualities at work here -- an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees. --Stephen Dunn
... a lovely blend of qualities at work here -- an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees. --Stephen Dunn
About the Author
Andrea Hollander Budy is the winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Runes Poetry Award, and fellowships from the Arkansas Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as more than a dozen other national awards. She and her husband, Todd, live in the Ozark Mountains near the town of Mountain View, Arkansas. They have one grown son, Brooke. Since 1991, she has worked as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, where she was awarded the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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In this highly readable volume, Andrea Hollander Budy portrays the live of the title Woman in the Painting in four stages. We see the woman's adolescence and young womanhood, full of love, loss, and yearning. In Part II, we flash back to her mother's life, which was triumphant despite a harsh upbringing and an early death. In Part III, we see her successful father and his slow descent into dementia. Finally, in Part IV, we hear the voice of the mature woman, wise to the world as well as to herself. Anyone who likes the poetry of recent laureates Collins and Kooser will love this volume.
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deft, subtle, and masterful writing,
This review is from: Woman in the Painting (Paperback)
Andrea Hollander Budy's third book is filled with poems full of complexity that has been richly boiled down to their essences -- like a delicious bouillabaisse full of flavor, layers, and discoveries. All her books are worth reading. At first, some of the poems don't jump out at you as other poets like Billy Collins or Mary Oliver's would...yet on 2nd and 3rd readings, their deeply satisfying nature sinks into your skin as a fragrance would, transforming, perhaps, the way you saw something before -- as you would in looking at a painting, for instance.
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Maturity, Humility, Bravery,
This review is from: Woman in the Painting (Paperback)
After attending a reading featuring Andrea Hollander Budy, I decided to purchase her book of poetry "Woman in the Painting." Through both her reading, and the book, I consistently encountered three things: maturity, humility, and bravery. Her confident sense of maturity stands behind her approach to writing--she seems levelheaded, thoughtful, and informed as she explores past experiences and scenes. An observation of a squirrel and a branch sets off a string of memories in "In the Garden," and from the vantage point of time, Budy intelligently parallels the natural scene with memory. Her confidence is interwoven with a humble acknowledgment of the reality of the details of experience--she steadily examines her subject matter, and she discusses it with you calmly and insightfully. This is evident in poems discussing her mother and father, and the deeply rooted emotions and difficulties of various relationships. Perhaps the most important quality of Andrea Hollander Budy's poetry is the bravery it takes to investigate the experiences treated therein. In "Giving Birth" she describes the "immense volcanic shuddering" associated with the pain of the experience--a pain which, as Budy mentions, books on childbirth say "in time you won't even remember." She examines the lingering impact of the death of a loved-one in "Poem in October." Though the subject matter is often weighty, her writing is refreshingly light in that the reader feels a sense of clarity and precision in her voice. Although I was a bit surprised when I discovered her various treatments of sexual experiences, it felt honest and insightful. I don't hesitate to recommend Andrea Hollander Budy's poetry.
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