Talking Soft Dutch

By Linda McCarriston

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896721167
• ISBN13: 9780896721166
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Talking Soft Dutch

I loved this book of poems. McCarriston is a spit fire of a woman with incredible resiliency, whose poems reflect a life that either speaks of ours or someone we know. Love and lust, mix with horror and sadness, but I as a reader was left with a feeling of love and hope and optimism. SAC

McCarriston's first book

There are the seeds of her later, more obviously personal-as-political work in poems here such as "Birthday Girl, 1950," "Eve," and "Trouble." There's also a sadness of memory and a passionate love of the world-as-it-is with its "pitiable beauty" ("A Day Like Keats' "Autumn," 55), its children, its barn fires, and, of course, its horses. Don't miss her second book _Eva-Mary_. Linda teaches at University of Alaska Anchorage, where I had the privilege to be one of her students, & still have the privilege to be her friend.