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PAST PRAISE ""What is unusual in Morning Prayer, and masterful, is Eve Grubin's ability to hint at a story undisclosed, creating a poetic palimpsest of mystery and revelation. Her interest is in the moments before and aft er events, in what is known 'just before knowledge.' With spiritual and artistic discipline she remains within the province of the poem, leading us not through events but through the more treacherous and radiant territory of her response to them."" --Carolyn Forché ""Eve Grubin seeks wisdom in the ancient Jewish texts as she navigates life as an American in England, a woman caught in the middle of life--a grieving daughter who has lost her mother, a wife and mother of two sons, a worrier, a reader, a dreamer drinking up the quirks of language. Above all, she is a contemporary seeker, and Boat of Letters is a marvelous book of observations, invocations, and prayers."" --Edward Hirsch ""One of Eve Grubin's poems is titled, 'The Poetics of Reticence.' And this reticence is what she works with in poem aft er poem, less being much more than we think as we enter these small, off-tilt worlds she builds with words, few being many, being more than enough for the glimmer of a mother no longer here, a husband and wife arguing about nothing, the Torah hovering over them, learning from the questions. 'Reticence, ' she writes, 'all around us. Night, breath, thorn.'"" --Dorianne Laux

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Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press), The House of Our First Loving (Rack Press) and Grief Dialogue (Rack Press). She teaches at New York University London.

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