The Way in

By Peter Miller and Robin Chapman

Poetry. The author of three previous poetry collections continues her luminous and bittersweet narrative style. Robin Chapman is a poetic voice you can settle into, learn from, come to know and trust. Whether she is writing of her childhood in a nuclear boom town or her now grown children or the passions and pleasures of nature, Chapman draws you into her world with the deftest of gestures and the surest of language. THE WAY IN is a generous book, full of life, and a true pleasure to read -- Jesse Lee Kercheval.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893670082
• ISBN13: 9781893670082
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Tebot Bach
• Length: 76 Pages

Customer Reviews

Inspires...

I am a young aspiring poet, I read any poetry I can get my hands on and when my mother gave me this book, I started reading it and haven't stopped yet. Robin Chapman captures you with her words and you can devour each one after the other like delicious chocolates. I urge you to read each and everyone of her books you will not be dissapointed. She inspires me to write. And She will inspire you to live.

The Many Sounds of Living

This is the last line of Chapman's poem entitled "Again" and it truly speaks to the entire book. Robin Chapman knows how to make language sing, whether she's writing about the politics of Barbie dolls or how we move through the natural world as in "That Day Gone to Ground Water". The best of these poems are beautifully told tales with straight-forward images that speak to us all. One beautiful example of this is "Games at Dusk".When I read the last poem--"Afterward"--which Chapman wrote for her mother, I wanted to keep on reading! By sharing her life with us--for example, in the poem called "What We Learned", about the dissolution of her marriage--she starts us thinking about and remembering forgotten or buried parts of our own lives. This book is gentle, funny, and tough all at once. If you like poetry, you will love this book. If you don't know whether or not you like poetry, this is a book accessible enough to convince you that you do. You won't be disappointed.