Diane Lockward's Reviews
Reviews of Diane’s Work
May.17.2010
Published by The Bees' Knees
ND: Your book What Feeds Us made me incredibly hungry for lush and savory food. Is there a dish or a recipe you would suggest that would ease my cravings after having been teased...
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Jan.01.2009
Published by Women Writers
The reader realises soon that not for nothing do fat yellow and black bees crawl over the fruit on the cover of Lockward’s book. In a poem entitled, “Invective Against the...
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Apr.01.2007
Published by Valparaiso Poetry Review
Every taste the tongue seeks and savors — salt, sour, bitter, sweet — even umami, the fifth taste, itself the savory — is summoned forth for us in Diane Lockward’s rich second...
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Mar.15.2008
Published by Rattle
In this, her second collection of poems, Lockward considers the things that feed her in both the physical and metaphoric sense. Readers will find a sensuous feast of fruits and...
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May.01.2008
Published by Poemeleon
In this book, winner of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, as in her first collection, Eve’s Red Dress, Lockward is attuned to duality, the dark and the light, the yin and the...
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Jun.01.2007
Published by Bookslut
Diane Lockward plunges headfirst into her obsession with both words and food in her luscious book, What Feeds Us. The title poem begins: “I brought the things I really need -- /...
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Apr.01.2003
Published by Valparaiso Poetry Review
Diane Lockward is a poet who knows how to play. And in Eve’s Red Dress, a handsomely designed book from Wind Publications, she plays with language, with the ironies and delights...
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Oct.10.2003
Published by The Pedestal
Eve’s Red Dress reveals modern women’s daily temptations and tribulations in 111 pages of poems, separated into five sections, that speak frankly about subjects such as laundry,...
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About Diane
Diane Lockward is the author of What Feeds Us (Wind Publications, 2006) which was awarded the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Eve's Red Dress (Wind Publications, 2003), and a chapbook, Against Perfection (Poets Forum Press, 1998)....
Connections
Causes Diane Lockward Supports
The Frost Place
Wounded Warriors
The Innocence Project
Diane’s Favorite Books
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tender Bar, Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina,