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Poems that offer a candid and powerful insight into the grief of losing aparentMother in Summer is a heartbreaking and heartbroken book of poems. It is anavid near maniacal utterly grief stricken Book of the Mother. Withinconsolable intensity it speaks to both her plentitude and her death. Each ofthe lyrics has its own distinctive shape and character yet the feeling accruesfrom poem to poem until the overall effect is that of reading a single longpoem.Despite the impressive formal control of the book there is nothing willed orselfconscious about the writing. Keeping the wildness and urgency of the poemsin tact through the artfulness of her language Susan Hahn creates beauty outof grief. It is the beauty of the living world that seems impossible to denyeven as it blooms almost perversely in the face of sorrow and death that makesthe vision of this book so complex and thus reveals it to be a most passionateobsessive startling and necessary work. «
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