Praise for Linda Bamber’s poetry
“If there’s a better contemporary poet than Linda Bamber, I have yet to encounter her. Her poems are funny, learned, profound, quick; all delivered in the conversational tone of a brilliant neighbor—a Nobel Prize winner, say—chatting with us across the backyard fence.”
– Ben Fountain
“I have often wished, over the years, for a female poet in the style of Frank O’Hara; bopping but sincere, humanistic, grounded but exuberant and irreverent. Linda Bamber may be that person.”
– Tony Hoagland
“It’s not easy to be both witty and filled with feeling, precise and open, cosmopolitan and intimate, but Linda Bamber manages it again and again. The joy of finding new love in middle age contrasts with the potentially disastrous course of our country and the world. This is a book to read, reread and give to all your friends.”
– Katha Pollitt
“Linda Bamber’s poems are fueled by an improvisational élan and playful sensibility that generate surprise and delight at every turn. Her method is that of the matador, a swirl of deft feints and telling thrusts. A true original.”
– August Kleinzahler
“Marvelous poems, flipping in and out of the many registers of American speech.”
– Lewis Hyde
Praise for Linda Bamber’s poetry
“If there’s a better contemporary poet than Linda Bamber, I have yet to encounter her. Her poems are funny, learned, profound, quick; all delivered in the conversational tone of a brilliant neighbor—a Nobel Prize winner, say—chatting with us across the backyard fence.”
– Ben Fountain
“I have often wished, over the years, for a female poet in the style of Frank O’Hara; bopping but sincere, humanistic, grounded but exuberant and irreverent. Linda Bamber may be that person.”
– Tony Hoagland
“Linda Bamber’s poems are edgy, aware, urgent and dazzling. I love their sudden shifts and disruptive methods – her insistence on connections most of us would like to deny. There are dark truths here, expressed with wit and feeling”
– Katha Pollitt
“Linda Bamber’s poems are fueled by an improvisational élan and playful sensibility that generate surprise and delight at every turn. Her method is that of the matador, a swirl of deft feints and telling thrusts. A true original.”
– August Kleinzahler
“Marvelous poems, flipping in and out of the many registers of American speech.”
– Lewis Hyde