The Horse Fair Pitt Poetry Series

"Describing a woodpecker, Robin Becker writes, 'Far-flung orbit of energy . . . a restless aptitude drives her hungers . . .' She could just as well be describing her own far flung imagination, her own hungers made manifest in language. The Horse Fair is a beautifully crafted book, wise and forgiving." -- Linda Pastan"I treasure these redemptive poems by Robin Becker, who writes with compassion and amazing vitality about the grief, afflictions, and foibles of trees, animals, and humans bound together on this dangerous planet. Her book is an exquisite manual on how to live." -- Shirley Kaufman"The Horse Fair is a moving, soulful, fluid meditation on being a Jew as this century closes. Robin Becker is a generous, compassionate, incisive guide through mysterious and heartbreaking terrain. -- Carol Maso"These narratives pay loving attention to several personal and historical tragedies. They record life with a tenderness that is easily trusted, despite forces bearing down on their subjects which would have it that their souls be obscured. This is one soulful collection of poems." -- Jane MillerDescribing a woodpecker, Robin Becker writes, 'Far-flung orbit of energy . . . a restless aptitude drives her hungers . . .'The Horse Fair is a beautifully crafted book, wise and forgiving." -- Linda PastanI treasure these redemptive poems by Robin Becker, who writes with compassion and amazing vitality about the grief, afflictions, and foibles of trees, animals, and humans bound together on this dangerous planet. Her book is an exquisite manual on how to live. -- Shirley KaufmanIt's hard to know where to begin praising this collection, it contains so many virtues: unremitting, intellectual brilliance and acute historical understanding, especially about being an outsider and a survivor.... -- Jonathan HoldenThe Abandoned Meander Adult Child Against Silence Angels Of The Lower East Side Autumn Song Community Garden, Sixth Street And Avenue B Dog-god The Donor Dylan's Fault Elegy For A Secular Man Ephemera The Evidence The Grief Of Trees Harvest Girl The Horse Fair In Praise Of The Basset Hound In The Days Of Awe: 1. Amidah In The Days Of Awe: 10. The Fast Of Yom Kippur In The Days Of Awe: 11. Selihot In The Days Of Awe: 12. Amidah In The Days Of Awe: 2. Shofar In The Days Of Awe: 3. Tashlikh In The Days Of Awe: 4. Aleinu In The Days Of Awe: 5. Teshuvah In The Days Of Awe: 6. Amidah In The Days Of Awe: 7. Avinu Malkeinu In The Days Of Awe: 8. Kedushah In The Days Of Awe: 9. Mourner's Kaddish The Keeper Late Words For My Sister Life Forms The Liz Christy-bowery Houston Garden Mid-life Midnight At The Third Street Sculpture Garden The Monarchs Of Parque Tranquilidad Phaeton Raccoon Rustic Portrait Sad Sestina Sisters In Perpetual Motion Solstice Bay Sonnet To The Imagination The Triumph Of Charlotte Salomon The Unnamed City Wants Why We Fear The Amish The Wood Lot Yoga -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®These narratives pay loving attention to several personal and historical tragedies. They record life with a tenderness that is easily trusted, despite forces bearing down on their subjects which would have it that their souls be obscured. This is one soulful collection of poems. -- Jane MillerThis generous poet is never less than attentive and responsive to the world that surrounds her. -- The New York Times Book Review, Carmela CiuraruWhat I love in Robin Becker's poems is how much the world is with her; characters, histories, animals, places, and things crowd onto these pages, inscribing them with the cries of the living.... -- Mark Doty