Hugh Fox reviews 92 Rapple Drive

In this latest book, Lyn Lifshin, Ms. Total Story has become tantalizingly fragmentary, never quite telling it all but just giving the reader enough to get the outlines of the vision she’s working with: “I was sure it was him/flying up from the thicket//drunk on a new poem./Someone heard him//scrounging for lasagna.This is the part of/the poem that’s true, the/night wind, his//howling, his lostness./Let him call it/love. Think of wolves/and moons. Think of me//morning after mourning/arranging the myths//I trapped myself in.” (“On Rapple,” p.41).

A significant step in a new direction on Lifshin’s part. Instead of somewhat straight narrative now we are being treated to a new, experimental, avant-garde style that is similar to other high-art Lyns like Lynne Savitt and Lynn Strongin.

The irony is that the sketchy nature of the reality that Lifshin presents is as (or even more) moving than full-narrative. You move inside the tortured soul of the poet directly into her edge-of-explictness feelings and find the same sorts of fractured worlds inside yourself. If Freud had been a Rimbaud-influenced poet.....

Brilliant book of poems by Lyn Lifshin

92 Rapple Drive

Poems by Lyn Lifshin
Price: $15.95
Perfect Bound
78 Pages of Poetry
Coatlism Press
ISBN: 978-0-9802073-1-6

"Her poems in rolling stone stayed on my wall longer than anyone's." --Ken Kesey

This new collection of poetry is a sexy, personal account of what happens on Rapple Drive. Lyn Lifshin takes you inside--behind closed doors--for an intimate look where most people never see. The poems are powerful, sensual and evocative.

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