Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Reviews
Reviews of Lyrae’s Work
![]Open Interval[](http://redroom.com/files/images/littleopenpic.100x150.jpg)
Apr.13.2009
Published by On the Seawall
...the book’s overarching theme – the insistent sense that we live on the brink of taking new shapes with every experience. ...The speaker of these poems is invigorated by the...
|
Mar.01.2009
Published by POST NO ILLS Magazine
a voice that is fascinated by the flexibility of language, and the ability to move freely, mutate even, into versions of self
|
Published by American Book Review
Van Clief-Stefanon orchestrates each poem as if it were one movement of a jazz suite.
|
Mar.01.2006
Published by BOXCAR Poetry Review
With studied equanimity, with swan-like grace, she simultaneously foregrounds and deconstructs gender and race
|
About Lyrae
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of the poetry collections ]Open Interval[, a National Book Award finalist and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is co-author, with Elizabeth Alexander...