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Hotel KaimanaPalm fronds from the
When I wake up I smell
tangerine clouds over
the fan off I hear some
lie imagining that hand
near the bed. Unless
tight, the sun moves
a cat let in in the
us loosely. Each bed in
threaded in some
sees whole Copyright Lyn Lifshin
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Lyn Lifshin, whose book Before It's Light won the Paterson Poetry Award, has written more than 100 books and edited four anthologies of women writers. Her most recent collection is The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian (Texas Review Press, 2005). Godine will publish Another Woman Who Looks Like Me in April 2006. A new collection, Persephone, will be published by Red Hen Press. Ms. Lifshin's poems have appeared in most poetry and literary magazines in the United States, and she has won many awards. She has also taught poetry and prose writing for many years at universities, colleges, and high schools, and has been Poet in Residence at the University of Rochester, Antioch, and Colorado Mountain College. She is working on a collection about poets, Poets, (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living and Dead. All True, Especially the Lies. For more information, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of her work, and more, browse her website: www.lynlifshin.com. |
