Double Crossing: New & Selected Poems

by Eva Salzman

Eva Salzman is a thoroughly modern, urban poet who writes with equal wit and precision about the natural - and unnatural world. In her sceptical, restless poems, irreverent muses and relentless twins take on sharply contemporary society, the unreliability of memory and - especially - identity, gender and love, sexual or otherwise. Born in New York, Eva Salzman moved to Britain in 1985, and four books later has firmly established herself as one of our most irrepressible and necessary poets. Double Crossing includes many new poems as well as selections from collections including The English Earthquake, Bargain with the Watchman and One Two. Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2005

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

The cover still seems disturbing to me, but I am increasingly glad I picked up this book. These poems explore many forms, stretch language and ideas, and are complex and inviting. I think "Eden" is the poem I've been trying to write for the past decade; it works best as itself, of course, but who could live without: "O bring me religion and strife!/I cannot go on like this."

[Mills College Library]

811.54 S186d 2004