The Door Open to the Fire (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: LV) (Csu Poetry Series Vol. Lv) (Csu Poetry Series Vol. Lv)

By Judith Vollmer

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880834413
• ISBN13: 9781880834411
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Vollmer sees through the light

Judith Vollmer is perhaps the greatest Pittsburgh poet that ever lived. Like a character, the city is both memorable within moments and devestatingly ugly at its worse. As a Pittsburgher, I know these places Vollmer writes about, and more importantly, understand what it's like to be surrounded by city. She also touches on many of the things that shaves so close to most Pittsburghers: ethnicicity(perhaps not the safest subject to write about by a white woman in todays academy). Her family and her history rolls along the book like so many of the city's hills. The narrative poetry stretches, swings and challenges readers with its dark music the same way Marina Tsvetaeva managed to do. Vollmer can take me on a tour any day -- I know I will come out both exhausted and revived in the end.