92
Rapple Drive
by Lyn Lifshin
$15.95, perfect-bound paperback, published in USA by Coatlism Press; available on Amazon.com, or buy direct from Coatlism Press
Reviews:
"Her poems in Rolling Stone stayed on my wall longer than anyone's." -- Ken Kesey
"You might as well get used to it: Lifshin is here to stay. For men, she's sexy. For women, she's an archetype of gutsy independence. As a poet, she's nobody but herself. Frightingly prolific and utterly intense. One of a king." -- San Francisco Review of Books
"These poems evoke in fantasy, but with a lot of anthropological detail . . . Lifshin's chipped line takes on a chantlike undertone, as of native voices themselves singing from the beyond." -- New York Times Book Review
"Lyn Lifshin is my hero. I became a writer because of her. The woman must write poetry while she sleeps, she is THAT prolific. Here's what I want readers to know about this brilliant author and this book. She will take you on a different journey with each poem. And don't be urned off by the word poetry. Great poets, and this is one of them, are great storytellers. They just happen to use the poetic form to tell their stories. You will laugh. You will cry. You will climb into bed with her and start to read her poems out loud to your lover. She is THAT GOOD! Lyn Lifshin is the most famous poetic goddess in the world, or she should be. We are all pressed for time. Lyn Lifshin serves us up a sampling of delicious hors doeuvres in 92 Rapple Drive. Her stand-alone poems allow us to devour her work one day at a time, one bite at a time. I read her poetry while brushing my teeth. Give me more, Lyn." —.Mary Kennedy Eastham, Author - The Shadow of A Dog I Can't Forget
Ernest Hemingway famously stated that “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.” Lyn Lifshin is a minimalist, slice of life poet in that same long and strong American tradition of spare realism. In Lyn’s poetry, the images do not convey meaning. Rather, the images are the meaning. When she states that “geese / were black ovals / against lightened gray” we do not have to search for a meaning or a symbolic resonance but rather close our eyes and picture the black ovals and the lightened gray. As our earthly encounters with sensual experience have meaning for us, Lyn’s poetic and beautiful images have meaning and speak to that basic human core where we can not help but read the world in sensual symbolic images. — Norman Olson
Review by Alice Pero
Cover Design by Ra Gabriel
Copyright c. 2007 by Lyn Lifshin. All Rights Reserved.