There Are Talismans - Doris Radin - Paperback

"A moving document," says MAXINE KUMIN, past Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, "Congratulations to Saturday Press for continuing to discover strong new work by good women." The Series publishes first books by women poets over forty. From four hundred manuscripts submitted in the most recent nationwide competition, two winners are now offered: THERE ARE TALISMANS by Doris Radin--& WATERMARK by Dixie Partridge. Both books have won praise from readers of very different backgrounds. DAVID IGNATOW: "THERE ARE TALISMANS should be read for its enlightening insight into the psychology of a woman born & raised in the Jewish villages of nineteenth century Russia, then called in Yiddish 'shtetl'...Written with precision & economy, the poems evoke a haunting response." MAXINE HONG KINGSTON: "I really do like these poems (THERE ARE TALISMANS) & find a similarity in our images which must come from our two similar old cultures." About the poetry of Dixie Partridge (author of WATERMARK), KUMIN says: "Sometimes we effete Easterners forget how vast the landscape of the West & Northwest actually is...Partridge grew up on a small farm in Wyoming where her great-grandfather homesteaded in the 1880's. We need the enlargement of poetry that comes out of this circumstance, bearing the past on its back." Poetry can make history. Saturday Press has now published twelve books by women poets in the full of their lives.Radin, Doris is the author of 'There Are Talismans - Doris Radin - Paperback' with ISBN 9780938158127 and ISBN 0938158120.