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Critics on Grace Bauer<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\n\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cGrace Bauer is a poet at the height of her powers . . . the landscape of American poetry is brightened considerably be the verve of Mean\/Time.\u00a0 <\/em>Marilyn Kallet<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Mean\/Time<\/em>, truth and its necessary consolations grace our lives as we go about \u201cmaintaining \/ the sacred by performing the mundane.\u201d Michael Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGrace Bauer\u2019s The Women At The Well <\/em>is a marvelous addition to this body of (midrash) literature. . . I welcome the reprinting of this courageous and wise book of poems. Alicia Suskin Ostriker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGrace Bauer celebrates the power of poetry to transform our sense of the world \u2013 to help us understand the qualities of mortality, love, human frailty, and the divine. There is an intricate mind at work in these poems, and Grace Bauer is a poet of true intuition and depth.\u00a0 Kevin Prufer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGrace Bauer\u2019s poems . . . do everything all at once and quite successfully \u2013 mixing a tender sense of human and worldly presence with a lush instinct for sound, a compact flow of narrative, the perfect weight of wry humor, and an acutely attentive vigilance to all surroundings. Bauer\u2019s balancing perspectives help \u201cilluminate a greater regard\u201d about everything mysterious and wondrous we are living.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Naomi Shihab Nye<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Carolyn Kizer \u2013 let them make room for Grace Bauer. Sexton\u2019s equal in sardonic vision, Bishop\u2019s equal in the music of speech, Kizer\u2019s equal in rapier wit . . . . . I, for one, will try to read every word this woman writes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Will Slattery <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGrace Bauer has a rare power: whether it is the appearance of Mormon missionaries at her door or finding an answer to an eight year old boy\u2019s question, \u2018what\u2019s Nebraska?\u2019 She transforms life into perfect poems.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesse Lee Kercheval<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBauer at her full range is earthy, gutsy, brainy, ruefully funny, and loaded with talent.\u201d Julie Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Critics on Grace Bauer \u00a0\u201cGrace Bauer is a poet at the height of her powers . . . the landscape of American poetry is brightened considerably be the verve of Mean\/Time.\u00a0 Marilyn Kallet In Mean\/Time, truth and its necessary consolations grace our lives as we go about \u201cmaintaining \/ the…<\/p>\n

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