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Editorial Reviews
Puerto del Sol, Summer 1998
In the first part of the book, entitled Libra, Friman illustrates, among other elements, the balance between mythology and modern day images, dark and light, and love and separation. Friman's imagery is a complex marriage of words. The images intensify within each stanza. Each word is an image that fits neatly into the next phrase constructing a certain mood.
In the first part of the book, entitled Libra, Friman illustrates, among other elements, the balance between mythology and modern day images, dark and light, and love and separation. Friman's imagery is a complex marriage of words. The images intensify within each stanza. Each word is an image that fits neatly into the next phrase constructing a certain mood.
In Friman's collection, her major strengths fall in the pleasing arms of her incremental imagery. Strong multivalent imagery that appeals to the reader's pathos is also mixed with humor in this poetic vat to create works that are simultaneously funny and serious. There is verse that touches the commonly suffered paranoia presented in our culture. Friman's poetry becomes a commentary of fears shared in our time.
This collection clearly shows Alice Friman's well-developed craft. It demonstrates a wide scope of style and subject matter. The authentic conversation and presence of the concrete image both ordinary and celestial add to Friman's art.
Indiana Review, Fall 1997
In a poem on the death of a friend's daughter, Alice Friman observes "how each heart-cracked moment/ arrives with its attendant image" ("Rachel Valentine"). The fifty-one poems of Inverted Fire collect as many such moments, the attendant images arriving in language as carefully exact as it is reluctant to insist or declaim. And at the heart of each poem lies what poetry always discovers when its attempts to speak the unsayable succeed: enigma always and everywhere. We are, these poems suggest, puzzles inhabiting and surrounded by mysteries. None of which, finally, can be explained but can be observed, wondered about, delineated, reported. It is not death [she says] but "life that is uncomfortable,/ sets the heart to ache, makes us,/ like a ten-month pregnancy,/ strain the confines of even good intentions" ("Flight to Australia"). But what these poems asseverate is that life is larger than these particulars, and that what it means and why it matters depend upon us.
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- The Book of the Rotten Daughter by Alice Friman in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Essential Love : Poems About Mothers and Fathers, Daughters and Sons by Ginny Lowe Connors in Back Matter
- Sleeping With One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival by Marilyn Kallet in Back Matter