Falling off the Roof
Karen Lindsey
"Wry, sad, angry poetry, sometimes delicate as fine brushwork, sometimes powerful as hammer blows. When she picks up mythology it is at once to
transform it into a personal expression and to not think of poetry in which a woman's complicated relationship of pride, fear, narcissism, and amusement
with her own body is dealt with more precisely. But the best thing in these poems is that when they come off, which is often, and even when they don't, the
voice is always Karen Lindsey's and nobody else's. She has created her own voice already, her own range of characteristic subjects and emotions, her own
inflections."
—Marge Piercy
about the author
Karen Lindsey is a feminist poet and journalist. Her work has appeared The Boston Phoenix, Second Wave, and others. She lives in Cambridge.
