“‘A Cappella’ invites the outsider to eavesdrop on a new community of American poets which has only since the 1970's been expressed in gutsy poetry rather than hymns and sentimental verse. Although they may invoke ethnically charged images, their poems are less charming local colour than vigorous explorations of the individual in the community, of women in a man's world, of personal trauma and ecstasy, and of spiritual hope in a dark world. Ethnicity gives these usually lucid poems a tart, sometimes obscure edge, but the result is a garland of verse well worth the effort to understand and appreciate.” — Ervin Beck, Goshen College
ISBN: 9780877458593 (2003) 199pp