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I am always looking for poems that continue what Walt Whitman started -- poems that explore American characters, our battles and desires, our multitude'ness. Beers is one of those poets. Like many poets, she has walked in two kinds of dust -- the sweat of working class rural America and the must of academia -- and she manages to embrace and reject both as appropriate.
These poems ache, but they also laugh. I will carry the memory of the woman in the dollar store with me for a long time.
I'm also very impressed with her craft.
And by the way, what is it with that other reviewer who complains about self-promotion? At a time when poetry needs every reader it can find, it is the duty of every poet to promote him or herself. When you promote your own work, you are also promoting poetry. It's a battle, and I'm grateful that Beers is joining in.
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A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers
Difficult Snow, February 27, 2009
I am always looking for poems that continue what Walt Whitman started -- poems that explore American characters, our battles and desires, our multitude'ness. Beers is one of those poets. Like many poets, she has walked in two kinds of dust -- the sweat of working class rural America and the must of academia -- and she manages to embrace and reject both as appropriate.These poems ache, but they also laugh. I will carry the memory of the woman in the dollar store with me for a long time.
I'm also very impressed with her craft.
And by the way, what is it with that other reviewer who complains about self-promotion? At a time when poetry needs every reader it can find, it is the duty of every poet to promote him or herself. When you promote your own work, you are also promoting poetry. It's a battle, and I'm grateful that Beers is joining in.
(7 of 9 readers found this comment helpful)