ROCK, VEIN, SKY

August 2008
by Charlotte Mandel
ISBN 978-1-877675-62-1; 70 pp; paper; $15.00
http://www.midmarchartspress.org/poetry.html

This newest publication from Charlotte Mandel contains poems that passionately personalize headlines of natural and man-made disasters, tsunami, 9/ll, a suicide bomber’s voice to his mother, and poems lifted by loving connection to immigrant heritage, newborns, a long marriage, attention to nature. Forms include sestina, sonnets, and original organic forms.

“Here is a poet steeped in the clarity of memory, who dares to link public brutality with the searingly counter intuitive, who can speak of a ’vaccine to prevent/sweetness in the tastes of war,’ who can invent words powerful enough to outrun the times.”
 —  Cynthia Ozick

“Charlotte Mandel’s poems present close observation in moments of illuminating insight, poems as much felt as imagined, organic, “given” in the best sense. They are a welcome gift.”
 —  Sam Hamill

Charlotte Mandel’s seventh collection of poetry, Rock Vein Sky, “ ...offers the reader a provocative portrait of the moments that comprise a life. . .” Read the full review by Kara Candito in the January 2010 issue Poet’s Quarterly

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