Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015Featured on NPR\'s The Writer\'s AlmanacEllen Bass\'s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.--The New York TimesBass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war.
She co-edited (with Florence Howe) the groundbreaking No More M.
This is the best scotch I ever tasted, Dotty says, even though we gave her the Maker\'s Mark while we\'re drinking Glendronach...
Ellen Bass\'s poetry includes Like A Beggar (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press, 2007), which was named a Notable Book by the San Francisco Chronicle, and Mules of Love (BOA, 2002), which won the Lambda Literary Award.
I gather up a cantaloupe, a lime, a cherry, and start revolving this salad around the chicken carcass.
How about the sun? she asks, a little farmshit in the endlessness.
Dotty lives at Dominican Oaks, making her way down the long hall.
Janet and I just watched a NOVA special and we\'re explaining to her mother the age and size of the universe-- the hundred billion stars in the hundred billion galaxies.
From the start of Like a Beggar, Bass asks her readers to relax, even though bad things are going to happen, because the bad gets mined for all manner of goodness.
From Another Story: After dinner, we\'re drinking scotch at the kitchen table.
By the collection\'s end--following her musings on suicide and generosity, desire and repetition--it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.--BooklistEllen Bass brings a deft touch as she continues her ongoing interrogations of crucial moral issues of our times, while simultaneously delighting in endearing human absurdities.
Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection.
Bass arrives at the truth of human carnality rooted in the extraordinary need and promise of the individual.
Her words are nostalgic, vivid, and visceral.
Those who turn to poetry to become confidants for another\'s stories and secrets will not be disappointed.--Publishers WeeklyIn her fifth book of poetry, Bass addresses everything from Saturn\'s rings and Newton\'s law of gravitation to wasps and Pablo Neruda.
Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist, 2015Featured on NPR\'s The Writer\'s AlmanacEllen Bass\'s new poetry collection, Like a Beggar, pulses with sex, humor and compassion.--The New York TimesBass tries to convey everyday wonder on contemporary experiences of sex, work, aging, and war
