Personal Effects
Marilyn Zuckerman, Robin Becker & Helena Minton
"Robin Becker's first collection of poems show a controlled ironic intelligence and a steadfastness of vision. The grandmother poems, the self as child, the
self as adult female, the poems of travel and search all reflect her clear unafraid image in the mirror."
—Maxine Kumin
"These poems radiate a sexual heat...They are about status, loss and grief out there...where life is crazy and hard, where we live and try to address new
loves and ancient urges against stunning odds. Helena Minton has beaten the percentages in these poems and prepared a place for us to inhabit."
—J.D. Reed
"Marilyn Zuckerman's poems are the first utterings of an urgent voice, compelled to speak by a force and with such force that I am tempted to use the
word 'possessed'...These are roadsigns along some highway that sears the countryside...Where they are going I cannot tell, but they are and it is somewhere
unheard of"
—Louise Bernikow
about the authors
Robin Becker's fourth collection of poetry, All-American Girl (University of Pittsburgh, 1996), won the 1996 Lambda Award in Lesbian Poetry. She serves as Poetry Editor for The Women's Review of Books.
Helena Minton holds an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a degree in library science. She has taught at UMass Lowell and Northeastern University. Her collections of poetry include The Canal Bed and Personal Effects, both published by Alice James Books. Helena Minton works as a librarian.
Marilyn Zuckerman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Amerika/America (Cedar Hill Publications, 2002). Her poems have appeared in such magazines as New York Quarterly, The Little Magazine, Nimrod, and in several anthologies. Ms. Zuckerman has received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, an Allen Ginsberg Award, and has a short story in the anthology, The Tribe of Dina (Beacon Press, 1988).
also by robin becker: backtalk
