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"A deft painter of scenes and lives, Robin Becker follows a thread of comedy in the dark labyrinth of the family saga. We could call that thread compassion. We could call it wisdom. Becker is an afficionado of old and odd paintings, of summer and seashore, of friends, lovers, and autumn heat, of whatever may 'disappoint and delight.' She is a lover of life and language-stubborn as they come. Domain of Perfect Affection is a poet in her prime." --Alicia Suskin Ostriker
"In Domain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker has again written poetry that, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'is carried alive into the heart by passion.' She bears forth her father's wisdom, 'The most important thing: / to love your work,' and in poem after poem that love is obvious: 'How many words for glisten, sparkle, glister?' Yet her passion for language spells a deeper passion to 'inhabit / a place of such tenderness' where the poet might 'accept myself / for what I am-androgynous, sublime.' Line by line, these poems create such a place, a domain where celebrations 'of our communal selves, / sheared of the theoretical,' quicken our lives, endowing us with 'the dignity / of exile.' In poems of startling clarity and intensity, in poems of-yes!-androgynous sublimity, Robin Becker reveals herself to be one of our most generous and essential poets." --Michael Waters
Praise for The Horse Fair: "This generous poet is never less than attentive and responsive to the world that surrounds her." --Carmela Ciuraru, New York Times Book Review
"Becker's painstaking, emphatic use of language celebrates a patient yet intrepid dedication to art as well as the indomitable spirit of life, human or otherwise, in the face of oppression and death." --Floyd Collins, West Branch
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