Poetry. Addonizio writes of herself, her passions and predicaments, without ever seeming 'confessional' or narcissistic, because what she relates is true of all mankind -- especially womankind -- Carolyn Kizer. Many of the poems in TELL ME can be read as intensified versions of the barroom ballad -- songs of good and bad love, songs of the allure and the failure of drink. But regardless of the subject, Kim Addonizio's poems are stark mirrors of self-examination, and she looks into them without blinking -- Billy Collins.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: BOA Editions
Published: 07/01/2000
ISBN: 9781880238912
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2000 pg. 842
Foreword 07/01/2000 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2000 pg. 108
New Yorker (The) 11/13/2000 pg. 174
Library Journal 04/15/2001