Great Regulars: So often a poet will want to force

the emotion of an experience into the foreground. [Linda] Bierds' poem does the opposite. She resists the emotional business of art giving life, of art being life, until that understanding lifts, crests and surfaces out of the poem naturally. By letting the materials expose the emotion, she makes something that's Original.


Zuni Potter: Drawing the Heartline

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Linda Bierds' poem reshapes experience into metaphor

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