Falk's work seamlessly bridges poetic landscapes often thought at odds: free verse and narrative, the confessional and the sociopolitical, the interrogative sensibility of the avant-gardist and the musical ear of the of the lyricist. Crazy Jane sings to us while simultaneously disrupting the flow; the poems...manage to dislodge us from complacency, not through an outer violence, but through a quiet, though raging, inner sense of desperation. Such urgency is difficult to capture, and Falk does so. A truly unique and honest voice in American poetry.

David Wolach, Wheelhouse Magazine

—From Reviews of It Happens As We Speak

...speaks to those who continue to seek a new language...

The American Book Review

...a book of birth, and life, and change, and wisdom...

Alicia Ostriker

...a riveting mix of candor and musing...

Molly Peacock

...a moving read...

Annie Finch

—From Reviews of In The Shape of a Woman

...what the attentive reader feels is an etherial sense of intimacy...the writer artfully comands our unreserved confidence...

New York Beacon

...a graceful testament to the pleasure, pan,, and endurance of a contemporary woman...

Book/Mark

...creates lasting mind pictures...examines the issues that try the human soul...

Long Island Update

Pat Falk is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York, where she teaches writing, literature and women's studies. She maintains a website at www.patfalk.net.

ISBN: 978-1-891386-95-4

$14.95