Strongin's creativity takes the world inside herself, turning it into her own private art-world then bringing us inside with her.--Hugh Fox, poet and critic.

Lynn Strongin a a marathon word-sprinter. Her work is beyond the pale.
James LeCuyer, poet & teacher, San Francisco
Very much the work of a true poet.
Denise Levertov, poet, author of With Eyes At the Back Of Our Head, The Sorrow Dance: Poems, and Footprints
What a great poet you are.
Kay Boyle, poet and fiction writer, author of Winter Night, and Collected Poems of Kay Boyle
All of Strongin s characters struggle in one way or another to find a way out of exile whether it is the literal exile from geographic place, the figurative exile of adolescence and recovery,...

Strongin is a poet and mystic decoding the unseen messages of this life. One can see oneself in the protagonists of "Star Quilt."--Anne Ross, translator.

Most of the time, as a poet, Lynn Strongin is rather up in the abstract clouds as a poet. Magnificent, but off in the world of decipherable beauty that isn't all that easy to decipher. But here in Alabama Light & Power Co we have a totally different Strongin, accessible, emotional, touching, super-realistic, dealing with her own paralysis, with the world around her, all on an everyday basis so you really get inside the inside of everyone's feelings, pains, exaltations, ecstasies. You can't find anyone else on the writing scene today who can even come close to Strongin's re-creation of...

In A Bracelet of Honeybees, Lynn Strongin conveys braided stories of aging, pain, and sexuality through her signature genius with language. In these poems, we find Strongin, an older lesbian poet, surviving with the disabling remnants of a childhood bout with polio. Strongin's language is always lush and playful; her imagery always surprising; and her allusions always erudite. No emotion, notion, or possibility is missing in these sharp-witted, sometimes twisted, poems. Strongin writes despairing lines such as "all nights are hospital nights" and "In my childhood all cities were...