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Barrow Street Press, 2004
Pan's Daughters, 1998, Chi Chi Press
Marking Her Questions, 1993, Mellen Poetry
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Nurture & Torture, 1992, San Diego
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"There's poetry in the very idea of ?, the
infinite number which shows us constancy of mathematical relationship. If
you know the radius, ? guarantees the circumference of a circle, and Lois
Hirshkowitz guarantees us a remarkable radius of pleasure in these quirky,
dream-like poems about the circumference of a life, and how to calculate
it. Sounds abstract? It is, but this is a full-bodied abstraction with a
sensuous apprehension of the world. Hirshkowitz's poems are mature work in
peak flower, radiant on the landscape of contemporary American
letters."
Molly Peacock
"The duties of the heart can lead us to
contemplate, as Lois Hirshkowitz's clear-eyed poems do, the near-rhyme of
nurture and torture (and both of those with 'nature') in our lives. These
are some of the least sentimental poems about love and family life that I
know - skillfully written, full of feeling, brave and memorable."
William Matthews
"The voice in Lois Hirshkowitz's poems is an
active one. Frenetic. Energetic. 'None of it feels like memory.' Rather
than static words on a page, she creates typographical landscapes through
which ideas and sounds can migrate and reverberate. Here is a poetics of
transformational and musical grammar that invites the reader to compose
these poems, anew and different each time, along with the
author."
Elaine Equi
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