The poems in this debut volume have been written over many years
and introduce a bold, new voice to take note of. In language, lyric
and evocative, Sheila Burke celebrates and confronts events we all
recognize with special attention to those issues women have faced
in the tumultuous 20th century. She extols motherhood and
experiments with the new roles of women. She examines mental
illness and the disintegration of a marriage. Influenced by Robert
Lowell's ground-breaking workshop at Harvard during the late 1950s,
she embraces the confessional style made famous by participants,
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. She doesn't spare herself or her
readers in verse that chronicles her sorrows as well as her joys.
Her poems can make you laugh or cry and are not easily
forgotten.
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