The Daughter I Don’t Have

Published by Plan B Press, December 2005. 44 pp. Staple-bound, $8.00 US Available from the publisher or the author (signed) Review by John Birkbeck Excerpts from other reviews The Daughter I Don’t Have imagines a…

Winner of the Texas Review Award

On April 17, 1972, at ten minutes to ten in the late evening, three days late, the only time she would be, Ruffian was born at Claiborne Farm in Paris,…

The Barbie Poems

Lyn Lifshin has more than 100 published books of poetry. She has won awards for her non-fiction and edited four anthologies of women’s writing. Her poems have appeared internationally, in…

Malala, poems by Lyn Lifshin

published by Poetic Matrix Press, 2014, 127 pages, $17 A small bird rising in the air and spreading its wings is seen next to every page number in Lyn Lifshin's…

All the Poets Who Have Touched Me

World Parade Books (2010), 234 ppISBN 9780984619856$10.95 Review by Alice Pero Few poets can permeate the heart of things as Lyn Lifshin does. In All the Poets Who Have Touched Me, (World…

BALLROOM

The poems in Lyn Lifshin’s new collection Ballroom are vividly descriptive and astute in psychological insight. There is a raw beauty in this book only found in an authentic portrayal of human…