Diana M. Raab's Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You is not only a
tribute to the late diarist, but also a tribute to diaries
themselves. Each of the book's poems, culled from Raab's own
journal, offers intimate portraitures, tiny memoirs in verse.
Raab's poetry is seductive in its earnestness, appealing in its
vulnerability, mystery, and enchantment.
Denise Duhamel, poet, author of Two and Two and Queen for a Day:
Selected and New Poems
Raab's skill is as a poet, but her passages are as intimate as a
diary. She reconstructs her past mirroring Nin's emotional honesty.
The reader never feels voyeuristic reading the intimate passages,
but feels like a confidant, friend and maybe even a lover.
Steve Reigns, Nin scholar, poet, and editor of My Life is Poetry
In Diana Raab's "imaginary world.people drip with stories / and
linger in bookstores and cafes / slurping foamy cappuccinos / and
nibbling chocolate cake." And the poems in Dear Anais are, indeed,
rife with both stories and the extravagantly various things of this
world: Laundromats and writers' conferences, steel-tipped boots and
champagne, patched jeans and paramedics, blueberries and
autographed photos of Paul Newman. While the book does pay homage
to Anais Nin-to her eroticism and wry humor and exquisite
journals-it also vividly evoke's Raab's own life, particularly her
family memories. Like Nin, Raab is indefatigable in her desire to
commit one woman's life to paper.
David Starkey, author of Ways of Being Dead
Praise for Diana Raab's memoir Regina's Closet:
" Raab makes Regina's Closet a walk-in book, complete with
recovered documents and packed with the sumptuous, minute,
domestic, tormented and romantic details of one fully-lived life
and another plucky life lived in answer to it."
Molly Peacock, poet, author of Cornucopia: New & Selected
Poems
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