Bauer's newest collection is an exploration of time: how we perceive it and its passing, how we use language to describe the lived experience that time informs, and the transformations we undergo during its passing.

MEAN/TIME: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

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BAUER, Grace

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University of New Mexico Press

The women at the well: Poems & a revelation

Portals Press

All one has to do is read Note From the Imaginary Daughter," the first poem in Grace Bauer's Retreats and Recognitions, and you'll be caught in the grip of psychological drama and an evocative imagination that will make you want to read further. Bauer's poems probe the dark landscapes between impression and apprehension, the past and its repetition though imaginative transformation, impulse and restraint. Her delivery is tough and terse; her imagery is fresh and often startling. There is experience and authority in her voice. She can be immensely witty, as in "Plot Lines," where she improvises on the word, tale, or virtuoso as in her intricate sestina, "A Little Like Dorothy." Succinct, like "Awakened By the Fall," and evocative, like "Lunacy." Her poems are poignant, intelligent, and believable. Poetry lovers, read this book!" --Robert Pack

Retreats & Recognitions: Poems

Lost Horse Press

Unholy Heart includes generous selections from each of Grace Bauer's previous books of poetry, plus a sampling of new poems. Bauer has long been known for the wide range of both her subject matter and poetic styles, from the biblical persona poems of The Women at the Well, to the explorations of visual art in Beholding Eye, to the intersections of personal history and pop culture in Retreats and Recognitions and Nowhere All At Once, and to the postmodern fragmentations in MEAN/TIME. Along with these selections, Bauer incorporates her most elegiac work yet. &nbsp;

Unholy Heart: New and Selected Poems

University Of Nebraska Press

This gorgeous cookbook offers more than 40 recipes from famous Los Angeles restaurants, chefs, and caterers, along with photographs, history, musings, and stories. These recipes are knockouts for the eye and taste buds.

Los Angeles Classic Desserts (Classic Recipes Series)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Desserts

Pelican Publishing

Grace Bauer's poems in Nowhere All At Once do everything all at once and quite successfully -- mixing a tender sense of human and worldly presence with a lush instinct for sound, a compact flow of narrative, the perfect weight of wry humor, and an acutely attentive vigilance to all surroundings... Bauer's balancing perspectives help "illuminate a greater regard" about everything mysterious and wondrous we are living."     Naomi Shihab NyeIt's against drabness that Bauer powerfully writes. Her casually precise poems -- all motion and meditation, praise and agitation -- do the double work of looking outward to transform the inner life, and looking inward to remind us of the superb texture of the world."     Daisy FriedThe poems in Nowhere All At Once are seductively plainspoken and deceptively complex. Throughout, Grace Bauer celebrates the power of poetry to transform our sense of the world -- to help us understand the qualities of mortality, love, human frailty, and the divine. There is an intricate mind at work in these poems, and Grace Bauer is a poet of true intuition and depth.     Kevin Prufer                              

Nowhere All at Once

Stephen F. Austin University Press

“In The Women at the Well, Bauer sings out of silent alternative stories of the Biblical women she first encountered as a schoolgirl listening to the nuns. Wry humor is only one element of Bauer’s illuminating re-vision as she inhabits her women in the longing, sassiness, rebellion, compassion, wavering, and triumph. She lets them like each other—Rachel and Leah reconcile—and lets them relish their bodies. Mary complains about never ‘knowing pleasure.’ She creates The Prodigal Daughter who, like Woolf’s Judith Shakespeare, experiences a vastly different fate from her male counterpart’s. But unlike poor Judith, this daughter survives and bears her own girl child . . . I had my favorites among Bauer’s women, and you will, too. Whoever they are, the Bible will never be the same.”—Carole Simmons Oles

The Women at the Well

These smart, funny ekphrastic poems surprise the reader on every page and surprise anew with each rereading.   Julie KaneGrace Bauer ... deploys the voices of artists and their subjects to consider matters of identity, power, class, anger, and erotics. With her usual high wit, the poet revises the location and meaning of worth and beauty. Bauer's formal skill serves to illuminate the "thick and pungent" paint caked on the hands of the maker, as well as the "civility and containment" we must shun to enter A-R-T."   Hilda RazAnne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Carolyn Kizer -- let them make room for Grace Bauer. Sexton's equal in sardonic vision, Bishop's equal in the music of speech, Kizer's equal in rapier wit ... I, for one, will try to read every word that this woman writes.   Will Slattery

Beholding Eye

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