In poetry printed on richly colored, variously shaped, layered pages reminiscent of a quilt's pattern, a Southern quilter looks backward, bittersweetly, on her life and past loves. 25,000 first printing.

Aunt Sallie's Lament

Kaufman, Margaret

Van Vliet, Claire

Janus Press Collection (Library of Congress)

Arts & Photography

Chronicle Books LLC.

Poetry. Margaret Kaufman's SNAKE AT THE WRIST is a striking collection of contemplative engagement, at once celebratory and elegiac. Rich images convey a fine attention to the natural world and the inner worlds of a variety of speakers, a prairie woman, a nineteenth century physician, an artist's model, Lot's wife. "Psychologically acute," according to Eleanor Wilner, the poems combine "chastened experience with sensuous relish for the garden of the real." David St. John calls the volume "a gorgeous collection"; Joan Aleshire notes "Kaufman's keen eye, insights, and expressive grace give her work an implicit power, akin to that of the book's presiding spirit, the Minoan Snake Goddess with a "snake at the wrist."

SNAKE AT THE WRIST

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Sixteen Rivers Press

Inheritance, Margaret Kaufman's second full-length collection of poems, takes in the broad scope of a life and its inflections across generations. A child's first diffident steps match a parent's last ones; childhood companions come to stand beside the poet in cemeteries and waiting rooms; a son's miraculous delivery from death echoes the spiriting of a Greek warrior from the battlefield. Lyrical, yet plainspoken and unpretentious, Kaufman's poems often leap across memories and metaphors mid-sentence in ways that defy logic, but the deep resonances of rhythm, image, and internal rhyme always find their way home in the reader's imagination.

Inheritance

Genre Fiction

Sixteen Rivers Pr

<p>Poetry. "The arts of remembering in Margaret Kaufman's INHERITANCE are as various as the tones of voice available to her as a poet. Her voice can be political, and it can be sensual portraiture. But always she will show us that a 'memory of that joyous dancing burns'"--Ilya Kaminsky.</p>

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Aunt Sallie's Lament

SNAKE AT THE WRIST

Inheritance

Inheritance