"Beware all those who enter here. Anderson's remarkable first
book...is like an outcropping of hell--the reader is compelled by
fascination and horror to keep reading...Anderson's life force is
implicit in the language throughout these poems, objective, exact,
charged with an emotional force given only to those who have been
to hell and returned to tell the tale."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Human Nature" explores, both seductively and horrificly, the
redemptive possibilities found in an American girlhood gone wrong.
Every one of Anderson's poems tells a story--dangerous, sensuous,
sometimes crazy, sometimes sacred tales that take us into the
heartbreaking reality and strangeness of a little girl who grew up
the woman of the house; at once drink-maker, showpiece,
secret-keeper, and object of lust.
The terrain of incest and violence sets itself out on the page
so subtely and plainly that the poems become mere containers for
these extremes, a kind of prayer. Where formal grace might seem
impossible, Anderson sings. And this is why the book --with all its
darkness and danger--is, in the end, an affirmative one. The poems
rise out of childhood's sorrows into a womanhood filled with the
past, hell-bent on the future, and ready for a fight. In haunting,
elegant verse, Anderson enters into the truth of experience.
Through it all, the poems come to embrace those universal
illuminations that arise out of--or even because of--suffering.
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