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Marge Saiser's poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love, and ... all her poems are in some way about love. — Ted Kooser
I am deeply moved by these extraordinary poems about giving birth and dying, about what it means to live life with dignity. They grow out of the heart of America, out of the landscape of small town and prairie, out of the hearts of people who look you straight in the eye. You dare not turn away, for the lessons to learn here are compelling. Marjorie Saiser is not only a wise and compassionate writer — her poems shine with details of the things of this earth, they pulse with the earth's very rhythms. — Judith Minty |
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Marge Saiser's brilliant poems are gifts of her vision. Packed with sensory detail and the multiple perspectives of the accomplished artist, Saiser's poems take as their subject all aspects of family life. Through generations on the farm and in town, these poems everywhere meet and match the predations of despair, poverty, violence and indifference with the assurance of love. Saiser counsels risk in the face of danger, faith in the natural world. She is the real thing, a poet working for us. — Hilda Raz
In her latest collection, Marjorie Saiser looks at love, both familial and romantic, and “the extravagant, piebald jungle” of a world in which it must take place. Poem after poem reveals the large truth inside the closely-observed detail, the universal in the local, the we in the I. Saiser’s finely-wrought, quietly powerful lines demonstrate once more that she is one of the Midwest’s very best poets. — William Trowbridge
In her latest collection, Marjorie Saiser looks at love, both familial and romantic, and “the extravagant, piebald jungle” of a world in which it must take place. Poem after poem reveals the large truth inside the closely-observed detail, the universal in the local, the we in the I. Saiser’s finely-wrought, quietly powerful lines demonstrate once more that she is one of the Midwest’s very best poets. — William Trowbridge
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When I read Marge Saiser’s poetry I feel I am in the presence of someone whose heart beats in rhythm with mine. I recognize the situations, the people, and the world she presents in these poems, but in Saiser’s adept hands, all things familiar take on the glow of the universal. Marge Saiser is an extraordinary artist who wields the power of poetry with grace and thoughtful crafting. Her poems offer a much-needed kindness in a troubled world. — Karen Gettert Shoemaker
The poems within Bones of a Very Fine Hand can be envisioned as a stack of photographs from a treasured family album . . . redolent with the warmth of love and family radiating from Saiser's carefully chosen words. — Nebraska Center for the Book News |
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The sincerity of Marjorie Saisier’s The Woman in the Moon is as eloquently developing as it is emotionally stirring. The simplest of life’s moments are loaded, the loss of a parent pondered while resting with the dog left behind, “The animal and I: eye contact, / as if choosing / this easily broken world.” When it comes to poets, some salt the wounds for punishment, some for flavor; Saiser does it to bring sense to living, the confusion and remorse, the insensibility of knowing our loved ones once they’ve gone. Marjorie Saiser’s The Woman in the Moon is a yearning collection of mature resilience, a reminder that, “We can’t go / back, lovely animals that we were, / so we must stumble forward.” - Nebraska Territory Review
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