To Give it Up

by Pam Rehm

Winner of one of the 1994 National Poetry Series awards, To Give It Up is a remarkable new collection of poetry by a young poet well on her way to establishing herself in the literary community. Of her selection judge Barbara Guest noted "How fine, how original, humbling in the purity of its tone is To Give It Up. And the creative intensity in which her poems struggle until a calm descends in which the spirit thrives."

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Pam Rehm is an American poet.

Reviews

[Sarah Spaulding Avento · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still gloriously lyrical like her other works, but a bit more abstract and obscure than Small Works. I think she revisits these ideas of theology/faith/spiritualism again later in Gone to Earth, but the ideas seem to cling more to identity in the later works. To Give it Up lacks some grounding for me.