Synopses & Reviews
"Bend "is the second collection from award-winning poet Natasha Saje. A wonderfully kinetic gathering of poems that will delight and enlighten even the most jaded reader, "Bend "challenges us with lively wit, sensuous observations, and intricate nuance as the poems explore the theme of transformation, even as they transform from lyric to prose narrative and everything in between. A masterful performance from a writer with an unquestionably profound and distinctive voice.
Natasha Saje has garnered many honors, including the Robert Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the 2002 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize. Her collection "Red Under The Skin" (Pitt) won the Towson State Prize in Literature in 1994. She has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. Saje's writings have appeared in numerous journals, including the "Henry James Review, Kenyon Review, Paris Review," and "Parnassus."
Synopsis
Poetry. BEND is the first collection from award-winning poet Natasha Saje. A wonderfully kinetic gathering of poems that will delight and enlighten even the most jaded reader, BEND challenges us with lively wit, sensuous observations, and intricate nuance as the poems explore the theme of transformation, even as they transform from lyric to prose narrative and everything in between. A masterful performance from a writer with an unquestionably profound and distinctive voice.
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"Natasha Saj 's new book Bend divulges the spirit of a sensualist and the habits of a contemplative; sometimes vice versa. Colors are separated with the veracity of paint. Shifts in temperature are registered and background noises distinguished, not only for texture's sake but for their essential contribution to the poems' substance. . . . For company Saj summons a curious assortment of lettered forbears including Cotton Mather, Henry Vaughan, Nietzsche, Proust, Gertrude Stein, and Mary Shelley. A virtuous and subtly depraved book is Bend." -C.D. Wright