Hope, as the World Is a Scorpion Fish

Liz Robbins's poems have what only the very best poems have: a sturdy toughness undergirding their tenderness. Though the body spins dervishly-almost blindly- for love and beauty, it must also accept the jolts of pain, of physical labor. As with the flowering pear trees in "On the Verge of Spring," we are ever " hopeful, / hopeless--with [the] smell of sweat suggestive/ of work and of fear." There's a refreshing honesty in these poems as well as a tremendous amount of skill with a sensuous musical language. Each poem is a delight, something to savor. -Nance Van Winckel

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: 03/01/2008
ISBN: 9780979393457
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d