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The Post-Rapture Diner (Pitt Poetry Series)
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Txt) (February, 1996)
Author: Dorothy Barresi
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One of the Best Poets Writing Today
"A vampire is being cared for on the shoulder of the/ southbound Golden State Freeway" begins Dorothy Barresi's poem, "Charity." With this- an misheard car radio announcement, Barresi launches into achingly beautiful meditation on human kindness and communication. "How can putting out a van fire

/ compare with the humanity/ of bearing one's wrist/ tenderly, shyly, as though a teenager,/ to those stilleto lips." An American Book Award winner and the author of the books "The Post Rapture Diner," and "All of the Above," Barresi's poetry is marked by an unerring empathy for human nature balanced by a gentle sense of whimsy. For instance, in her poem, "When I Think About America Sometimes (I Think About Ralph Kramden,) disparate images from one of the most pedestrian stereotypes in American culture ("To the moon, Alice!") are breathed new life, made terribly and poignantly real. "...picture their lovemaking-/ the sweat he heaved into her with a fat man's/ slog and fury, not/ grace, don't call it grace,/ until their headboard,/ scrolled with grapes and angels in the old manner,/ must have quaked like rails underground." There is no trace of the amateur in her work. In Barresi's formidable hands, words become something alive, and beautiful.


All of the Above (Barnard New Women Poets Series)
Published in Paperback by Beacon Press (August, 2001)
Authors: Dorothy Barresi and Olga Broumas
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One of my favorite books of poetry
I've been enjoying this book for 6 years, every since I bought it for a creating writing class at Indiana University. The poems are lovely, well crafted, and imaginative in their use of language.

If you love poetry, I highly recommend this book.


Rouge Pulp (Pitt Poetry Series)
Published in Paperback by Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd) (October, 2002)
Author: Dorothy Barresi
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