"The voice in Anele Rubin's poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest--there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me . . . Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Transtromer and Yehuda Amichai. . . . The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in Trying to Speak, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me."-- Philip Levine, Judge
"Anele Rubin's...
Winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
"The voice in Anele Rubin's poems] is so new, and yet the movement is so artful,...
