Ballroom: Poems by Lyn Lifshin

In Ballroom we have Lifshin at her absolutely most evocative, energetic, seductive. The whole book centers on "encounters," guys and not gals plural, but Lifshin herself. Some negative encounters, but most of the time it's a walloping WELCOME TO THE SEXUAL ENCOUNTER HERE AND NOW. As always tactile, visual, deep--psychological, perhaps Lifshin's single most powerful book. They're always powerful, but this one is screaming--not just for today's reader, but down the road in time-travel classes about twenty-first century poetry that brings you irresistibly into the ecstatic, squirming NOW.Hugh Fox