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Lois
Hirshkowitz, dear friend and poet, has passed away in May 2008.
· Poet · Editor · Teacher · Administrator
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Pan's Daughters, 1998, Chi Chi Press Marking Her Questions, 1993, Mellen Poetry Press Nurture & Torture, 1992, San Diego Poets More publication details here...
"There's poetry in the very
idea of ?, the infinite number which shows us constancy of mathematical
relationship. If you know the radius, ? guarantees the circumference of a
circle, and Lois Hirshkowitz guarantees us a remarkable radius of pleasure in
these quirky, dream-like poems about the circumference of a life, and how to
calculate it. Sounds abstract? It is, but this is a full-bodied abstraction
with a sensuous apprehension of the world. Hirshkowitz's poems are mature
work in peak flower, radiant on the landscape of contemporary American
letters." "The duties of the heart can
lead us to contemplate, as Lois Hirshkowitz's clear-eyed poems do, the
near-rhyme of nurture and torture (and both of those with 'nature') in our
lives. These are some of the least sentimental poems about love and family
life that I know - skillfully written, full of feeling, brave and
memorable." "The voice in Lois
Hirshkowitz's poems is an active one. Frenetic. Energetic. 'None of it feels
like memory.' Rather than static words on a page, she creates typographical
landscapes through which ideas and sounds can migrate and reverberate. Here
is a poetics of transformational and musical grammar that invites the reader
to compose these poems, anew and different each time, along with the
author."
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