Packing Light: New & Selected Poems

by Marilyn Kallet

Book Overview

Multiple-award winning poet Marilyn Kallets first book of new and collected poems draws from many of her books and publications to create a succinct and comprehensive overview of her work. Author of 14 books, her poems have been published in hundreds of periodicals and poetry reviews over the last thirty years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981808808
• ISBN13: 9780981808802
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Black Widow Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Packed with ponderings

Kallet's PACKING LIGHT is packed tight with poems that will move you and make you laugh. But read these in small doses because she goes deep as well, and writes about difficult feelings, about visiting with people who seem cavalier or naïve about the pain inflicted during the holocaust. Honoring her Jewish heritage, seeing her parents and family clearly while admitting her own foibles, Kallet lets us in and gives us permission to tell the whole truth too. A wonderful collection.

A Stunning Collection That You'll Want to Share

The best writing: poetry, fiction and nonfiction, invites transcendence. There is a personalization that occurs for the reader, that allows the authors' insights to superimpose the readers' life experiences, which allows a sort of partnership in art. Marilyn Kallet's beautiful book accomplishes this, and better, it does so with astute humor. I am savoring this book, not wanting it to end; then again, the great thing about poetry such as Kallet's is that it contains more than this reader is able to see--somehow, I know this. I will return to these poems again and again.