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Poetry Sunday: “Anchor” in Women’s Voices for Change

August 10, 2015 by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet News Poems Reviews

Thanks to Rebecca Foust for featuring “Anchor” in her Poetry Sunday column at Women’s Voices for Change – and for her thoughtful, detailed look at this poem, and at free verse as a whole.

Praise for Lisa’s Work

Investigates the joys and complexities of this evolution, this meld and pull, with verve and a calming intelligence.”

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It is rare to see a collection, debut or not, that is so impeccably crafted—precise, wonderfully complicated, and rich. This is a book of opportunities: linguistic, syntactic, imagistic. Every bit of detail contributes, in an inevitable way, to the whole.”

—Martha Rhodes

…a poem of vertiginous self-consciousness: its extremity of feeling countervailed by the pressure of silence it makes felt. Like Gerard Manley Hopkins in ‘No worst, there is none’, this poet brings experience to a pitch in language at once pared back and wild with its play of repeating words and sounds.”

—Porter Prize judges’ statement

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