The Black Bear Inside Me, The by Robin Becker
Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time mows down our days, though we may never escape original cruelties. Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando;
These celebratory and mournful poems, so artful and intelligent, so smart and sharp with linguistic leaps and returns and reversals, derive from Becker's imaginative encounters with the everyday, often in its immediacy - a hummingbird, a black bear, a coppiced tree, a Yankee barn saleBecker is the perfect companion, intimate and revelatory, with whom to see the world."" - Richard McCann
""For many years Robin Becker has been writing some of the best poems of our generation. Her devotion to what Frost called ""vocal imagination"" weds the laconic, half-humorous, half sorrowing quality of her speech to the quiet virtuosity of her music. But what I most value is her clear-eyed affection for other people. To quote Thom Gunn, her poems ""bypass the self like love."" - Tom Sleigh
""For many years Robin Becker has been writing some of the best poems of our generation. Her devotion to what Frost called ""vocal imagination"" weds the laconic, half-humorous, half sorrowing quality of her speech to the quiet virtuosity of her music. But what I most value is her clear-eyed affection for other people. To quote Thom Gunn, her poems ""bypass the self like love."" - Tom Sleigh
Robin Becker received the Lambda Award in Poetry for All-American Girl and has held fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. Her books include Tiger Heron, Domain of
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822965244 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822965240 |
| Title | The Black Bear Inside Me, The |
| Author | Robin Becker |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2018-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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