Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for 2001. "With a paradoxical joining of muscle and delicacy, Laure-Anne Bosselar crafts poems of great intelligence, music and spirit. SMALL GODS OF GRIEF is powerful work in which Bosselaar displays all the poet's gifts. I return to these poems again and again"-Stephen Dobyns. Bosselaar is the author of another book of poetry, THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF, also available at SPD, and editor of several collections of poetry. "Here are poems from the inside, sung by an outsider whose need to be part of that which is not evil allows her to see herself and us in the world with enormous heart and tentative hope. Laure-Anne Bosselaar has written a large book whose sweep pushes us aside, pushes us under, pushes us forward"-Martha Rhodes.
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In Small Gods of Grief, Laure-Anne Bosselaar explores her childhood in post-war Belgium and her later struggles with grief, love and identity in contemporary America. Ms. Bosselaar mixes imaginative lyrics, narratives and dramatic monologues in this empathetic account of what it means to be human.
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The Isabella Gardner Poetry Award winner for 2001.