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Black Swan by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize |
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| ISBN 0-8229-5787-6 Paper $12.95 |
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| "A series of dramatic portraits: the landscape of a Florida landscape too hot to touch, the mother's Pentecostal Old Testament law of judgment, a father's recklessness in the mindless spreading of seed, male malingering with no meaningful work, and little instruction by example. . . . Ecstatic lyric, ritual grace under extreme pressure, realized." ~Michael S. Harper "Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Black Swan is a slim but thoughtful debut. With sedate economy, Van Clief-Stefanon delivers a composite distillation of the bitter fruits of patriarchy--highlighting what are often dismissed as incidental by products of more fundamental "human" struggles." | |