Diana Raab will write anywhere about anything to not only rid
herself of childhood "ails" but to enjoy herself completely, even
poking fun at her foibles. She takes a close and courageous look at
all her life's experiences, and in so doing, shares her wisdom and
forgiveness of self and others with a raw honesty that is both
refreshing and inspirational. Her poems are, as she writes of her
ancestors, "bright candles trembling in their own wax."
Perie Longo,
Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Emerita, author of With Nothing Behind
But Sky
The poems in Diana Raab's The Guilt Gene deftly delineate the
stages of a woman's life. From the quotidian chores of walking the
dog and picking up dry cleaning to the small miracle of finding
three whole watermelons on the beach, Raab savors her American life
and invites you to join her.
Molly Fisk, Listening to Winter
The Guilt Gene is a prism with a hundred facets offering glance
and glimpse and deep seeing into encounters with love, loss,
longing, and epiphany. From an author who has taught us the power
of memory and story, these poems take us along the road from a
World War II typewriter to the eyes of an old dog. Poetry here
reminds us to heed what calls to us daily.
Kim Stafford,
The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the
Writer's Craft
The Guilt Gene, Diana Raab's second book of poetry, has the
straight-forward confessional tone that distinguishes her best work
whether in prose or poetry. Eschewing high flying metaphor and
dressed up formality, she confines her subject matter to her inner
life and her journal-keeping voice and makes her poems through an
emphasis on the line. Her poetry does not pretend to have figured
things out; rather, this work is her process of figuring them out,
of sorting her past and contemplating her present. The best of
these poems derive their beauty from a disarming frankness and a
heart that is open, willing to find a personal truth and say
it.
Philip F. Deaver, How Men Pray
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