To Some Women I Have Known (Marie Alexander Poetry Series)

"ToSome Women I Have Known is poetic and essayistic, offering edges--of moments--and of genre.   These pieces are lists and litanies, research and recitation, incantations and illusions, and they're all exquisite....  There's a wistful distance to every line, a fade.  The writing in this collection is lyrical and composed, controlled even, and I know I'll come back to it again and again." Jill Talbot

"Some Women I Have Known is deliriously immersive, but the real beauty of this work is in the juxtaposition. What yokes the memory of a friend's dying mother, a kidnapped heiress, a syphilis-stricken aunt....  Birds, women, horses, and pears float interdependent in the persistent spume of this gorgeous book." Barrie Jean Borich

"What is worthy of recalling (calling out to again), of remembering (putting back together what is fragmentary, dissolute) from our prospect halfway between what is and what could be. Looking back at her old selves, old friends, old family, old lovers, Hansen sees them both 'as we had imagined them to be' and as citizens of a lost world. Whatever these texts are--prose poems, lyric essays, memoir--they are luminous with loss."  Brian  Clement



Re'Lynn Hansen's novel, Take Me to the Underground, was nominated for a Lambda Award. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago and lives in Michigan.