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This is a book of poems about shopping, dressing and undressing. ... Read more

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pleasure and awe
From cover to cover this book shines with jewels of many hues, relecting the author's various and wonderful perspectives on life's many facets.A wonderful read (and not just for women)!

How come nobody thought about it before?
"Fashion

is a way

of loving the body

or hating

its parts."

From this short poem we can see that we are rather in female territory, the looker in me wants to know what do women have to do with clothes. It's all here, the love of clothes and the love of nakedeness, clothes that remember, clothes wishing to forget, clothes looking forward and looking east. This is the journey around a woman's clothes in 80 pages.

Women will identify with many of the poems here, men may be able to understand better their ladies.

Karen Alkalay-Gut is the best English writing poet in Israel today, and also one of the best Israeli poets in any language. Zionism and the imposing of the Hebrew language has left her in a marginal place, unjustly. Alkalay is Israeli to the core, in spite of writing in English. A real poet to discover and cherish. Go for it. ... Read more

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In So Far, So GoodKaren Alkalay-Gut – whose life as front-line poet, educator and performer has taken her from London via New York to Tel Aviv – casts a seasoned eye over existence in our particular dangerous, stimulating moment. Poems and sequences rake over the personal rites and traumas of apartment-hunting, surgery, sudden death and sudden lust in a vibrant and wise feminine monologue.

This is the twentieth book in a poetic career that includes a CD with rock group Thin Lips andpoems on clothing with Israeli fashion firm Comme-Il-Faut. ... Read more

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SO FAR SO VERY, VERYGOOD!
Buy this book!It's excellent!And I am a very picky poetry reader.

If you love poetry, you'll find Karen Alkalay-Gut's poems eloquent, focused,funny, sexy and thought-provoking.If you are a victim of a bad educational system and hate poetry, you won't hate it any longer after you read her poems! If you are a poet, you'll find yourself saying, "Hell's bells!Why didn't I think of that!"And she does it with such seeming ease-proof that she has worked very hard honing and crafting her work.

If Oscar Wilde had been a woman, he would have been Karen Alkalay-Gut. Karen speaks her mind-and she does it so well, with such wit, so economically, youtell yourself, "Well, that's something that I never thought of before."

Karen is the Irma Bombeck of urban English language poetry.Like Bombeck, she takes the mundane-the doctor appointments, the shopping trips, the interaction with pets and with neighbors and turns them into a universal experience.She writes about herself, but her poetry is far from "just about me."It's about all of us.That's the magic in her poetry.

Karen Alkalay-Gut, like Lucille Ball, knows that timing is everything.Her one-liners clinch the poems she writes and are always witty-and very often uproariously funny-and they are always placed in the exact place to have the most effect.

As I read her poems on the treadmill at my gym, I found myself laughing aloud more than once-whether it be her conversations with Freud in her apartment, with Wilde in her car, with the gastroenterologist, or her ponderings at home as she copes with insomnia or listens to her dog barking or to the cats outside in their mating rituals.And she can deal with more serious remembrances such as date rape, illness, her relationship with her late mother with a gentle pathos devoid of self pity and, yes, even with dry humor.

She transportstragic events, such as the 9/11 attacks, to a universality that speaks with dry wisdom,In Ireland with her husband in the aftermath of the attacks, she links the Twin Towers with the Tower of William Butler Yeats' poetic sequences.Her clinchers are sharp, pointed and often very funny-I found myself laughing out loud more than a few times.She arouses emotions without being emotional; she understates.

In short, if you like writers who are unpredictable -and who doesn't?-you'll love reading this book as much as I did.

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This is a book of poetry about being Jewish, and living in Israel. ... Read more

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the c.n.n. of the soul
deeply involved with the recent and troubled history of both the jewish people and the state of isreal, these great poems uncover, touch , and may help in healing some of the most painfull human scars known to all immigrants, all victims, all of us feeling unsafe in our own home , already marked as the targets of the next war. with humor, eye for detail and compassion, "in my skin" carries a rare urgency, lacking from most poetry written today. reading it, you might find that you've been exposed beneath your own skin more than you were willing to. ... Read more

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Word count: 1157. ... Read more