![]() Or a cloud’s sheep shape you spied skimming And while you mightn’t so swiftlyįorget a blackberry’s taste or a thorn’s prick Or so my mother said, popping a blackberryĪt the far edge of the woods. One of my favorite poems in this collection, “Forgetting,” reads in its entirety:Ībsence rarely makes the heart grow fonder, And yet, though we may be left itching to know a bit more, each poem stands alone. Her tough-minded intelligence leaves plenty of room for questions and regrets.īecause Schwartz is best known as a writer of fiction, it’s tempting, and perfectly possible, to read almost every poem here as containing the germ of a narrative - an epigraph, an introductory paragraph, a final paragraph, an afterword. ![]() At all times, Schwartz’s poetic voice is piercingly honest. Irritated by Cordelia and partial to the Fisherman’s Wife, she’s a contrarian reader. She’s an archivist of memories, a celebrant for the forgotten or nearly forgotten, who also writes eloquently of the undertow of oblivion. She’s a stubborn anti-sentimentalist who can write wrenching elegies. No Way Out But Through, Schwartz’s third collection of poems, showcases some of this writer’s many strengths. And galling as it may be for a poet like me, possessed of no narrative talent, to acknowledge, Schwartz is also a poet of poise and power. ![]() LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is a novelist and memoirist and translator, a writer of excellent prose.
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