Poetry
ISBN: 0-89924-104-2
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These are vivid narrative poems, many of them family-centered, written in a sparkling, spare diction. When Oles is elliptical, the reader leaps with her, the unsaid so deftly placed that the whole poem takes you by the nape of the neck.
-Maxine Kumin
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| Carole Simmons Oles has published six books of poems, including Sympathetic Systems and The Deed. She teaches at California State University in Chico, where she has directed the Creative Writing program. Recent work appears in Painted Bride Quarterly, Family Reunion: Poems About Parenting Grown Children, and Field, and is forthcoming in The Women's Review of Books. |
