Begin Again: Collected Poems - Tapa blanda

Críticas

"She is funny and poignant, a writer of great power and great delicacy. She is one of our finest--and most original--poets." --Gerald Stern

"What I love most in Grace Paley's poetry is her unquenchable sense that the artist's life is not somewhere at the margins of community, that a dialogue is necessary between the poet and her people. The North American enterprise has injured this dialogue. Paley's exuberant, heartbreaking, committed poems call it back to health." --Adrienne Rich

"The art that Paley has displayed in her celebrated short stories is generally replaced in her poems by spontaneous, personal speech. These poems provide a tour through Paley's life, telling of her friends, her childhood memories and her struggle to come to terms with age and mortality." --Adam Kirsch, The New York Times Book Review

"Paley is a master of the short form. . . . Her no-frills poetry, like that of the classic Chinese, speaks worlds with a minimum of words. . . . Paley's attentiveness, wry sense of self, and gift for finding drama in the plainest of moments imbue her poetry with toughness and joy." --Donna Seaman, Booklist

"In Paley, life, literature and politics converge--nonviolently, of course--in a cunning patchwork quilt of radiance and scruple, witness and example, nurture and nag, subversive humor and astonishing art: a Magical Socialism and a Groucho Marxism." --John Leonard, The Nation

Reseña del editor

Combining the poet's four previous collections with new, unpublished poems, this sweeping anthology of a great American poet moves from Manhattan to the quietude of rural Vermont, exploring themes of friendship and social injustice with verve and good humor. Reprint.