always women in the
?dark on porches talking
as if in blackness their
secrets would be safe
-from "Champlain, Branbury, the lakes at night"
Lyn Lifshin can make something memorable out of the most familiar words and scenes-something memorable, something fresh and entirely her own. Contents of this collection include Slippery Blisses, A Love of Blueness, Written on the Body of Night, Things Behind the SunDarkness in the Light.
A generous new collection of only seemingly simple lyrics about childhood, love, sex, death, and memory by the populist woman poet.
"Lifshin is here to stay. For men, she's sexy. For women, she's an archetype of gutsy independence. As a poet, she's nobody but herself. Frighteningly prolific and utterly intense. One of a kind."-San Francisco Review of Books
