Hope, as the World Is a Scorpion Fish

Liz Robbins's poems have what only the very best poems have: a sturdy toughness undergirding their tenderness. Though the body spins dervishly-almost blindly- for love and beauty, it must also accept the jolts of pain, of physical labor. As with the flowering pear trees in "On the Verge of Spring," we are ever " hopeful, / hopeless--with [the] smell of sweat suggestive/ of work and of fear." There's a refreshing honesty in these poems as well as a tremendous amount of skill with a sensuous musical language. Each poem is a delight, something to savor.--Nance Van Winckel

• | Author: Liz Robbins
• | Publisher: Backwaters Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 84 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0979393450
• | ISBN-13: 9780979393457