Indigo
Bass writes desire, ageing, food and grief without embarrassment about pleasure or flinching at loss. The collection where her plainspoken late style arrives complete.
Bass writes about desire, ageing, food and grief in poems that are unembarrassed about pleasure and unflinching about loss. The collection where her late style, plainspoken and sensual and direct, arrives fully formed. She writes sex in middle age and dying parents with the same steady attention, and refuses to treat either as more serious than the other.
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Maria Popova
I know no better homily on this fundament of our humanity than Ellen Bass’s poem “Kiss” from her altogether soul-salving collection Indigo (public library).
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