In this collection of late works by Lynn Strongin, we find that perfect balance of salt and water spiced with symbolism and metaphor that poet Strongin does so well. Jewish Temple offerings included salt and Jewish people still dip their bread in salt on the Sabbath as a remembrance of those sacrifices.
Lynn Strongin's poems flame up with energy, humor, and a fierce resistance to life's anguish. Her language sings. She writes for all of us, but especially for those who, like her, have suffered more than a common share of pain."" James LeCuyer, poet and teacher
Lynn Strongin is a poet and mystic - decoding the unseen messages of this life. One can see oneself in the protagonists of Star Quilt: The Seventh Jump - photographer Maggie, upstart pioneer, pushing the envelope of her art, and Rachel, a retired postal carrier with back problems who could once walk the length and breadth of a small town with a heavy letter sack on her back. All Strongin's characters are, to one degree or another, visionaries and outsiders. Anne Ross, translator There is no other poet writing today who takes poetry so totally seriously and gets so absolutely involved with the writing-process as a means of psycho-spiritual rebirth. You enter Strongin's world and it's not just like traveling to another planet but into a whole new alternative universe. Hugh Fox, poet and critic This new book is a wonder. Glenna Luschei, poet About Lynn Strongin's short fiction collection, Albino Peacock: . . . a quite a wonderful achievement. I read it from start to finish in one sitting. It's marvelous. It is music. It is poetry. Florence Miller, teacher, poet, co-editor of Poems by Shakespeare's Sisters (Shakespeare's Sisters Press)
Whether it be England or America, Amelia Earhart or a commoner, war or wedding, this collection of poems paints your imagination with visions of them all.""In Lynn Strongin's work, bread suddenly becomes 'the color of buffalo'. Strongin magnifies the world around us."" - Hugh Fox, late great poet and critic""Lynn Strongin's poems carefully explore historical memory and a sense of recovery with a lyricism that is never sentimental, but disciplined, complex. She explores... how to live after the blade, to live as either wounded or as a ghost. I love the notion of secret history, the beatitudes and brutalisms behind all our grander... fictions."" - Jonathan Minton""Accept Lynn Strongin's invitation into this magical kingdom of bees, lambs and foxes. Wish too: 'We can only afford to push away what we utterly possess.'"" - Glenna Luschei, poet and publisher
The dark and the bright light of seventeenth century Holland permeates this love story. This is the light in which Fabrytius, Rembrandt's most illustrious pupil, painted. Is the light his chylde? Or is it the passion between two women in a Boston marriage? We are mystically called forth to decide. It is the story of Angel and Velvet, both theatre buffs and book lovers. How they struggle to overcome a nearly tragic decision in a southern town is revealed. The core of the book is a crisis which, in age, challenges them to rise; a phoenix from the fire rather than swirl in the heavenly chiaroscuro light of seventeenth century Holland, angels in ashes.
Most of the time, as a poet, Strongin is rather up in the abstract clouds as a poet. But here in "Alabama Light & Power Co." we have a totally different Strongin--accessible, emotional, touching, super-realistic, dealing with her own paralysis, with the world around her, all on an everyday basis.--Hugh Fox, retired professor emeritus, Michigan State University.
Strongin's creativity takes the world inside herself, turning it into her own private art-world then bringing us inside with her.--Hugh Fox, poet and critic.
All of Strongin's characters struggle in one way or another to find a way out of exile whether it is the literal exile from geographic place, the figurative exile of adolescence and recovery, or simply the exile that we must all endure as we find our way into our individuality.--Jonathan Minton, poet and editor.
A novel of the American South. The Ogeechee River runs through cypress swamps to reach Savannah's Low Country. Its waters are deep and black and haunted. In this semi-tropical world, oleander, magnolias, and azaleas sweeten the heavy air. Copperheads and cottonmouths, papermills and trailer parks disrupt the innocence of Tessie Harnish, and her best friend, Annie Osaha. The girls, one white and one black, share Geechee blood and their secrets"--
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