Swimming with DolphinsAn intelligent sensuality pulses through these poems of love and loss- marvelously present in the fullness of pleasure, equally present in moments of crushing grief. The poet refuses to make small any suffering, whether it is personal, as in matters of erotic or familial love, or historical and political, as in her poems on the Argentine disappeared or the McCarthyite period in the United States. |
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