Dilys Laing - Reviews

Reviews

  • Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews, M. L. Rosenthal, Persea Books (May 1991), ISBN 978-0-89255-149-1
  • Theology Today:

This is a good book to hold in one's hand, a good book to take up and put down, to contemplate. It does not speak the jargon of the "contraceptive woman" of current journalism but the language of one in whom love developed human relationships in many ways. Wallace Stevens once wrote of "those who move about the world with the love of the real in their hearts." This poet did.

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