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Little Fires
by Beth Bentley

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Catalogue #: 044
ISBN: 1-885942-04-4 paper $15.95

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Quotes
"...poems which are alive in a dull and noisy time."
- Richard Wilbur

Comment on Beth Bentley's Previous Books
"Together these poems inform and illuminate each other in the most amazing and satisfying way, making them a true collection of undeniable power. The slow, searching, invariably precise voice gains so much. . ."
- Leslie Norris (on Country of Resemblances)

"How original and pure! Reading this book is a freshening--the care and tact of craft, the discretion of understating, a discretion that so much implies an integrity of respecting the truth of experience and feeling, the accuracy of staying close, as close as possible to the skin of it..."
-Jean Garriue (on Phone Calls from the Dead)

"An album of compressed, carefully observed epiphanies. . . in its sensitive, feminine way, as sharply etched as anything by Richard Wilbur or Howard Nemerov. The Orphic voice here becomes a stream, a symbol of otherness to which we must repair if we are to renew our connection with the whole. In Miss Bentley's most successful poems the abyss of extinction is transformed into the sheltered space of human relationship. . . Beth Bentley has expressed a sense of the necessity of human communality similar to what is perhaps the great poem in the modern era, William Wordsworth's 'Resolution and Independence.'"
-John Hughes, Saturday Review of Literature
(on Phone Calls from the Dead)

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Publisher's Note
Beth Bentley read from Little Fires recently at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. The reading was well attended, Beth was well received, and Elliott Bay reports that twenty books sold. That's a Cune Press record for poetry. Congratulations, Beth.

Author's Bio
Beth Bentley has lived in Seattle since 1952. Each of her two previous books, Phone Calls from the Dead and Country of Resemblances (Ohio University Press), won the Governor's Writers Award (Washington State). Her work has won numerous other awards, and she has been recognized with an National Endowment of the Arts fellowship.

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