- Kathleen Spivack, author of The Beds We Lie In.
". .
. what I admire in her work is the evident authenticity and intensity
of her images and the intelligence and literacy with which she discovers
the vivid words of her experience."
- Denise Levertov
"Miriam
Levine is not just another modernist poet straining for effects: each
of her 40 lyrics, stripped down and scraped clean of diffuseness and cliché
and sentiment, runs rarely more than a page or two. Unrhymed, and with
almost no end punctuation, they seem pointilliste-spaced out dabs and
thrusts of color and implication, under- and overtones. On first readings,
most of her poems withhold much of their tightlaced freight of meaning;
but soon 'the chemical vertigo' seeps through . . . These are adult poems,
with their unique trademark of odd, sharp austere imagery and deepthrusting
insights."
- Choice
