Mules of Love (American Poets Continuum) by Ellen Bass

Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and spectacular humor, the poems in Ellen Bass’s Mules of Love remove darkness from the basic dynamics of our lives: relatives, group, sexual love, pleasure, loss, faith and dying. The poems additionally discover the darker features of humanity—personal, cultural, historic and environmental violence—all of that are dealt with with compassion and charm. Bass’s poetic reward is her skill to commiserate with others troubled by means of comparable hungers and grief. Her poem "Insomnia" concludes: "may whatever/ convenience you—a mockingbird, a breeze, rain/ at the roof, Chopin’s Nocturnes, the concept/ of your child’s delivery, a kiss,/ or perhaps me—in my cold kitchen/ with my coat on—thinking of you."

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Ellen Bass is co-author (with Laura Davis) of the best-selling The braveness to Heal: A advisor for ladies Survivors of kid Sexual Abuse (HarperCollins 1988, 1994), which has bought a couple of million copies and has been translated into 9 languages. She has additionally released a number of volumes of poetry, and her poems have seemed in thousands of journals and anthologies, together with The Atlantic per thirty days, Ms., Double Take, and Field. In 1980, Ms. Bass was once presented the Elliston e-book Award for Poetry from the collage of Cincinnati. final 12 months, she received Nimrod/Hardman’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, judged via Thomas Lux. She used to be nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, the place she has taught inventive writing for 25 years. She has additionally taught writing workshops at many meetings nationally and in Mallorca, Spain.