Cold Comfort: Selected Poems, 1970-96

"Magnificently crafted poems, terse as needlework" (Choice) these concise field reports from a woman warrior at the front line of feeling confirm the suggestion of Ed Sanders that Lyn Lifshin qualifies as "a modern Emily Dickinson."

Lifshin writes with energy, fire, and truth of the common world of experience. Bearing signs of struggle, pain, and loss, these poems carry the history of the body with agony and pride, as enduring tokens of what it is to be alive.