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Praise for Landscape with Female Figure

Andrea Hollander knows what to hold back as she lets us in. And so we willingly bring ourselves into her subtly registered emotional world. There’s a lovely blend of qualities at work here an unsparing eye, and a heart that humanizes what that eye sees.
—Stephen Dunn 

In “Still Life with Jonquils” Hollander says, “The painter knows . . . we bring our own heat to the canvas.” Her readers enter poem after poem in this poignant and mature collection bearing the heat of their own lives. Hollander’s impeccable conversational diction does just what a poem should do; it raises the hairs on the nape of your neck.
—Maxine Kumin 

Andrea Hollander is the author of five full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her many honors include two Pushcart Prizes (in poetry and literary nonfiction), two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, the Runes Poetry Award, the Ellipsis Prize, the Vern Rutsala […]

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