Synopses & Reviews
Take Three Poets
Take Susan Aizenberg: "Susan Aizenberg is a writer of rare promise, in part because her stance is a refreshing balance of toughness--a take-no-prisoners attitude--and a deftly fluent lyricality. . . . These are bracing and haunted lyrics, which send 'clear notes up the fire escape.'"--David Wojahn
"These poems thrill me. They're bullets of white light illuminating the tumble of perception and longing, the insolite and edgy beauty of 'the lives we really have.'"--Belle Waring
Susan Aizenberg is the poetry editor for the Nebraska Review and lives in Omaha.
Take Mark Turpin: "Mark Turpin's marvelous poems about people at work make a contribution to American literature: they have a tender, grave moral awarness like Thomas Hardy's, with a lyrical wit and invention grounded in observation like Elizabeth Bishop's. I love reading and re-reading these poems. They refresh and enlarge my idea of poetry."--Robert Pinsky
"Mark Turpin's poetry is both substantial in texture and speculative in direction, with a wonderful tautness and intensity."--Thom Gunn
Mark Turpin works as a carpenter and lives in Albany, California.
Take Suzanne Qualls: "Forthrightness, pungency, passion intensified by a disabused eye--Suzanne Qualls's poems testify to a mystery, and take the reader to the sorrowing, generous edge 'where the force of world upon world narrowed the distinction between earth and sky.' You have a great pleasure ahead."--Frank Bidart
"Subtlety and directness, wicked comedy and understated pathos: here is grace in a new form, and passion in a new key. Qualls's poems deserve widespread, intense attention."--Robert Pinsky
Suzanne Qualls lives in the Berkeley area.
Edited by Askold Melnyczuk and the poety panel of AGNI magazine, Take Three: 2 is the second in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.
Review
Take Susan Aizenberg: "Susan Aizenberg is a writer of rare promise, in part because her stance is a refreshing balance of toughness--a take-no-prisoners attitude--and a deftly fluent lyricality. . . . These are bracing and haunted lyrics, which send 'clear notes up the fire escape.'"--David Wojahn
"These poems thrill me. They're bullets of white light illuminating the tumble of perception and longing, the insolite and edgy beauty of 'the lives we really have.'"--Belle Waring
Take Mark Turpin: "Mark Turpin's marvelous poems about people at work make a contribution to American literature: they have a tender, grave moral awarness like Thomas Hardy's, with a lyrical wit and invention grounded in observation like Elizabeth Bishop's. I love reading and re-reading these poems. They refresh and enlarge my idea of poetry."--Robert Pinsky
"Mark Turpin's poetry is both substantial in texture and speculative in direction, with a wonderful tautness and intensity."--Thom Gunn
Take Suzanne Qualls: "Forthrightness, pungency, passion intensified by a disabused eye--Suzanne Qualls's poems testify to a mystery, and take the reader to the sorrowing, generous edge 'where the force of world upon world narrowed the distinction between earth and sky.' You have a great pleasure ahead."--Frank Bidart
"Subtlety and directness, wicked comedy and understated pathos: here is grace in a new form, and passion in a new key. Qualls's poems deserve widespread, intense attention."--Robert Pinsky
Synopsis
"Featured in this welcome second volume in the series are collections by three poets who have contributed to AGNI's biannual journal....Internal and external sight lines unite this sampler, which delivers further on the promise of the Take Three series". -- Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Edited by Askold Melnyczuk and the poety panel of
AGNI magazine,
Take Three: 2 is the second in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.
About the Author
Susan Aizenberg is the poetry editor for the Nebraska Review and lives in Omaha.
Mark Turpin works as a carpenter and lives in Albany, California.
Suzanne Qualls lives in the Berkeley area.
Table of Contents
Peru / Susan Aizenberg -- Nailer / Mark Turpin --Beauty, and instinct / Suzanne Qualls.