Poetry. In CHANGE (Will Do You Good) Gail Entrekin lays out the boundries of what's really at stake in the affairs of the heart. In these poems, with an economy of words and the clarity of a practiced poet, she takes on life's transitions and, like Mary Oliver and Sharon Olds, bravely reveals the expectations beneath the choices we all must face. Gail Entrekin does what our best poets have always done; she makes the value of our emotional journeys available and visible...and real.
Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA
Gail Rudd Entrekin has taught English and creative writing at California community colleges for 25 years. Her collections of poems include CHANGE (WILL DO YOU GOOD), Slim Volume Series Selection for 2005 from Poetic Matrix Press, nominated for a California Book Award; You Notice the Body (Hip Pocket Press, 1998); and John Danced (Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, 1984). Poetry Editor of Hip Pocket Press since 2000, she edited Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra in 2002 and Yuba Flows in 2007. Her poetry has been widely published in literary magazines and anthologies, and she lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, writer Charles Entrekin.
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"Never the same river twice, and life keeps moving on. These are the truths that CHANGE celebrates, mourns, puzzles over, and explores in language that is so accurately beautiful, and so beautifully accurate, that it leaps off the page. Once again, Gail Rudd Entrekin digs into reality and comes up with glory."
—Alicia Ostriker
"CHANGE (WILL DO YOU GOOD) rocks on the salt sea of a woman's life, buoyed by Gail Rudd Entrekin's deft images and clean lines. Children born, grown, and gone: farewell song of an aging body; the tenderness and doubts of a marriage—everything's awash in joy and sorrow, delivered without sentiment or apology by a writer whose wisdom is earned and language is truly beautiful."
—Molly Fisk
"Using language luminous and precise, Gail Entrekin explores the essential elements: love, sex, daughters and sons, aging, illness, fear and fury. And it is love—of husband and children, of friends, and her dog, and a monumental one of words—that holds this spellbinding collection together. Pick it up. You won't be able to put it down."
—Sands Hall