Hearsay

By Lee Robinson
Selected by Robert Wrigley

Hearsay celebrates a woman's life from childhood to middle age, including the often-ignored subject of work, with a voice that is sometimes tender, sometimes whimsical, but always strong.

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They reach to the core, the wise and witty poems of Robinson's fine first collection. Hearsay offers clear-handed testimony that no reader can afford to dismiss. —Wendy Barker

Her work is immensely accessible and revealing. She seems to express so well the unexpressed thoughts that most of us think we have had, or wish we had. —Steve Bennett, Post and Courier Charleston, South Carolina

One is persuaded by these poems because they are full of the world and alive within the senses. You enter into them, and they enter into you, and for that period of cohabitation, you find yourself changed. . . .As a reader, you can hardly ask for more.
—Robert Wrigley, Judge for the Poets Out Loud Prize