"Poetry," writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, "is the way I
pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and
pray. It's the way I embody my love for the world."
The Human Line, Bass' seventh book of poems, startles with its
precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings
attention to life's endearing absurdities, and many of the poems
flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the
crucial moral dilemmas of our time-genetic engineering,
environmental issues, continuous war, heterosexism-and grounds her
vision in the small, private workings of the heart.
. . . When I get home, my son has a headache, and though
he'salmost grown, asks me to sing him a song.We lie together on the
lumpy couchand I warble out the old show tunes, Night and Day . . .
They Can't Take That Away from Me . . . A cheapsilver chain
shimmers across his throatrising and falling with his pulse. There
never wasanything else. Only these excruciatinglyinsignificant
creatures we love.
Ellen Bass is co-author of the million-selling book Courage to
Heal. She lives and teaches in Santa Cruz, California.
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