The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)12 reviews Clarice Lispector New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992 Not a normal book, and that's what makes it great. + wonderfully strange little book. + I want the world! Don't dig into this book expecting something normal. Lispector wasn't a normal writer at all. She wasn't a normal woman. This book was written while her cancer in her uterus was eating her alive, and you can almost taste the angst from the narrator. Not that her other books are any different, but ...             Selected Poems (New California Poetry, 3)1 review Fanny Howe University of California Press, 2000 The assembled wonder The title of this book deceives. Indeed it is a "selected" but is no mere anthology of works. The poems are chosen from books spanning decades, but are re-ordered, re-sequenced, in some cases even excerpted out of longer poems to create a new--completely new--book. The poems are kept short. The ...             Ardor Karen An-hwei Lee Tupelo Press, 2008 Central to this poetic cycle is an ethereal fugue of women's voices: old and young, remembered and forgotten. Acutely intimate and sensual verse articulates the complexity and wit of feminine consciousness and yet imbues this collection with a warmth and elegance that is irrefutably original and compelling. Karen An-hwei Lee is the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Norma Farber ...             In Medias Res: Poems Karen An-hwei Lee Sarabande Books, 2004 >"Lee's strange and gemological arrangements are the measure of her gift. . . ." -from the Foreword by Heather McHugh In the form of an eccentric dictionary, this debut brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson. In compressed and oddly slanted "definitions," Lee's poems move through the alphabet in an attempt to limn the border between language and spirit. In Medias Res is an investigation ...             Dictee11 reviews Theresa Hak Kyung Cha University of California Press, 2001 Reflection of woman + an amazing work + Great book... This book is confusing, frustrating, consuming and utterly breathtaking. It is a shattered mirror w/ pieces of riddles, poetry, cold photos of mothers and unsung heroines & nonsense; a true reflection of a woman. And like a woman, it takes work to truly understand its essence. Discovering what is ...             Autobiography of Red29 reviews Anne Carson Vintage, 1998 Framing and Layers of Life + An Excellent Interpretation of an Ancient Myth in Verse + Wanting to return + "Autobiography of Red" Is A Modern Masterpiece + The Human Custom of Wrong Love             In Medias Res: Poems Karen An-hwei Lee Sarabande Books, 2004 >"Lee's strange and gemological arrangements are the measure of her gift. . . ." -from the Foreword by Heather McHugh In the form of an eccentric dictionary, this debut brings to mind the long poems of Anne Carson. In compressed and oddly slanted "definitions," Lee's poems move through the alphabet in an attempt to limn the border between language and spirit. In Medias Res is an investigation ...             The Hour of the Star (New Directions Paperbook)12 reviews Clarice Lispector New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1992 Not a normal book, and that's what makes it great. + wonderfully strange little book. + I want the world! Don't dig into this book expecting something normal. Lispector wasn't a normal writer at all. She wasn't a normal woman. This book was written while her cancer in her uterus was eating her alive, and you can almost taste the angst from the narrator. Not that her other books are any different, but ...             Selected Poems (New California Poetry, 3)1 review Fanny Howe University of California Press, 2000 The assembled wonder The title of this book deceives. Indeed it is a "selected" but is no mere anthology of works. The poems are chosen from books spanning decades, but are re-ordered, re-sequenced, in some cases even excerpted out of longer poems to create a new--completely new--book. The poems are kept short. The ...             Ardor Karen An-hwei Lee Tupelo Press, 2008 Central to this poetic cycle is an ethereal fugue of women's voices: old and young, remembered and forgotten. Acutely intimate and sensual verse articulates the complexity and wit of feminine consciousness and yet imbues this collection with a warmth and elegance that is irrefutably original and compelling. Karen An-hwei Lee is the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Norma Farber ...             Dictee11 reviews Theresa Hak Kyung Cha University of California Press, 2001 Reflection of woman + an amazing work + Great book... This book is confusing, frustrating, consuming and utterly breathtaking. It is a shattered mirror w/ pieces of riddles, poetry, cold photos of mothers and unsung heroines & nonsense; a true reflection of a woman. And like a woman, it takes work to truly understand its essence. Discovering what is ...             Autobiography of Red29 reviews Anne Carson Vintage, 1998 Framing and Layers of Life + An Excellent Interpretation of an Ancient Myth in Verse + Wanting to return + "Autobiography of Red" Is A Modern Masterpiece + The Human Custom of Wrong Love