A sculptor whose one-woman shows have graced venues like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chase-Riboud is also a distinguished author; her fiction has won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and her poetry the Carl Sandburg Award. This first collection since 1987 offers 160 poems, 57 of them new. Not surprisingly, what impresses is the poetry's push and power, combined with fierce historical/political awareness: in the title poem, the central character kisses a woman's proffered throat, "Then drinks deeply from the Knot of/ Memory as he wrings the tilted neck."
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