No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin Poetry)

What marvelous poems these are and how complete a collection. Like a circus aerialist who makes us gasp one moment and laugh the next the poet takes us from her immigrant fathers Macedonian roots to her own maturity to the life of a woman who is smart and well-read yet knows her way around a Coney Island hot dog and finds the attentions of a drunk cowboy oddly flattering. There are so many good poems here that its hard to pick a favorite but Ill put my money on Confessions of an Ugly Nightgown in which a dead womans shapeless article of intimate apparel says it can still rouse a sleeping husband and is loveliest as it lies on the floor.--David Kirby Get Up Please