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Publisher: March Street Press
Date Released: 2010
ISBN13: 978-1596611337
Linda brings us her hard-edged vision of a domestic life in which miracles pale in comparison to the solidity and substance of real people. She blesses the world- our world- with her attention to our hopes and fears: we know these people, struggling for dignity and meaning, worrying about friends and children and marriage and money, looking for sufficient beauty to go on. These poems find that beauty again and again and offer it to us as the daily bread of poetry.
–Richard Hoffman, Interference and Other Stories, Massachusetts Cultural Fellowship Recipient
PRAISE for Linda’s poetry
Linda K. Sienkiewicz takes on the grittier human topics: children gone to war or astray, our violent selves, the sometimes “dearth of noble natures” and intrepidly rearranges the disaligned, awakening us with poetry that sings out and takes no prisoners.
—Dorianne Laux. What We Carry, Guggenheim Fellowship Award Recipient
The power of these poems comes from their clear, unflinching details as she examines the subtle balancing act of our daily lives, and the miracle of staying on the tightrope.
—Jim Daniels, Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies, winner of Blue Lynx Poetry Prize
Linda Sienkiewicz casts a clear eye on personal devastations, dangers and desire. Her refusal to yield and her deft way with words give us poems that tell us to picture it- and survive.”
—Terry Blackhawk, Escape Artist, winner of 2001 John Cardi Poetry Prize
Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s poems are at the heart of every place: in the wilderness of dreams, in the celebration of relationships, in love and in trouble. She has a delightful way of fusing fact & imagination in solid accomplishment. Her insight becomes our insight. Linda is chock full of feminine power.”
—Stellasue Lee, Ph.D., Crossing the Double Yellow Line