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"Here, finally, is a book of poetry that reads like a book! There is such adroitness of craft and sequence each poem lit by Janet Kaplan's steady spirit of intelligence that the reader can enter a poem of a difficult, even treacherous, nature and still experience real discovery and delight. The Groundnote moves in and out of shadow and myth, the human condition in its ringing specifics and in paradigms, but the plot of this book is one of victory, the ongoing lyric of the groundnote itself." -- Kate Knapp Johnson

"Passion and intelligence, the hallmarks of Janet Kaplan's poetry, rank her among the leading poets of the newest generation of American writers. Miraculously, luminously, she places her gut-wrenching personal history in the wider contexts of myth, class, and geography. In taking account of the whole world, she creates a world of understanding in The Groundnote. Not only is it unusual, it is downright thrilling to read a first book of such stature, plucky grace, and range." -- Molly Peacock

"She is drawn to glorious disasters, and out of that allure sounds her note, the groundnote of her title: a voice sustained in all extremes high and low, recognizable and admirable throughout." -- Richard Howard

After The Sacrifice
Answer
The Bridge Of Sighs
Chansons
Cradle, Keel
Fourteen
The Living Man
Lucifer Of The Mind
Monster
The New Age: 1. Sex Kitten
The New Age: 2. Attachments
The New Age: 3. Burnt Orange Taxi
The New Age: 4. Blue Lights
The New Age: 5. The Little Prophesies
The New Age: 6. Rough Neighborhood
Pelham Bay
Pibloktoq
Poem
The Reconciler
The Sirens
Sister
Storm Windows: Broken Song
This City
To My Mother's Parents
Unfinished Music
Wildfire
Writer
Ziusudra In Warsaw
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®