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Title: The lifework of an outstanding poet
Review: This volume contains the lifework of a truly outstanding poet. It contains selections from the fourteen volumes of poetry she had published prior to it. Feinstein is also a well- known biographer, and translator who helped bring the work of the Russian poets Akhmatova and Tsevetayava to public notice in the West.She writes movingly of her father , of her academic husband and of her children. She writes of the various worlds she knows .She writes of people with insight and real feeling and sympathy. She is an understandable poet and one whose richness of language does not lose itself in obscurity or hidden meanings. She also has an inquisitive questioning mind not only about the world and the people she meets but about herself and her own life. It was a great pleasure to read these poems . My sense is that they should have many many more readers than they have had to this point.
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