Sophie Cabot Black is an unabashedly passionate poet. Her language is exquisite, each word falling perfectly into precise structures of vision. Whether in a loose sonnet form or in a taut longer line,
"Black's poems, in their measured grace, have a quiet intensity, animated by her passion for a clarity of understanding, in the art as in the life."-Stanley Kunitz I have not handled the ordinary wel
“Black’s voice is startling, jagged and implacable, and [her poetry] is steep, precipitous and dazzling.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewI took care of myself. I took careOf myself, thinking much too o
