Poetry. "Owens's theme is that of violation—the violation of one person's space by those who want to control or absorb it, who will not let it beàOwens does not shrink from the violence and horror she finds everywhere around her and which she projects back, most convincingly, into what was supposed to be, according to Burckhardt and Berenson, the ordered and measured world of Renaissance Florence. [Owens's] is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgment: it is imperative, in her poetic world, to face up to the horror, even as the point of view is flexible enough to avoid all dogmatism"—from Marjorie Perloff's introduction.

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Rochelle Owens is the author of seventeen collections of poetry, including SOLITARY WORKWOMAN, LUCA: DISCOURSE ON LIFE AND DEATH, and NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1961-1996 (all three Junction Press); nineteen plays, collected in Futz and What Came After (Random House), The Karl Marx Play and Others (E.P. Dutton), Futz and Who Do You Want Piere Vidal? (Hawkswell Press and Broadway Play Publishing), and Plays by Rochelle Owens: Chucky's Hunch, Futz, Kontraption, Three Front (Broadway Play Publishing); the screenplay for Futz (United Commonwealth Films); and the novel Journey to Purity (Texture Press). She translated Liliane Atlan's The Passersby (Henry Holt) and edited Spontaneous Combustion: Eight New American Plays (Winter House).

Reviews and Other Links
Marjorie Perloff @ HOW2
author page @ PennSound