Title: THE LACEMAKERS
Author: Rosanne Wasserman
Publisher: Gnosis Press

There is much to charm and entertain in the Lacemakers. The play of wit and intelligence, the music, the light and serious meditation on love, and the resonant metaphor of lace and lacemaking itself-all mingle to provide a booklength symphony of echoes and glissandos.

James Tate

Exquisite interweaving patterns of lace, language of thread, designs like snowflake. Ghost of the lacemaker toward whom passion may reach and pass through, Point (needlepoint lace). The voice of Pillow (bobbin lace), Pillow, the warm desires, the longing of flesh. In Pillow's Kaddish, she says: "the hand becomes the cath…/Here, it says, with its short fingers offering warm air, /here is your spooky heart." Then the poet Ariachne, the spinner of words:"DELIGHT/DESIGNS/DESIRE-/only thread/disintegrates;/form never disappears." Eurydice, curator of textiles, the passionate other, the mind's handwork.

Profoundly beautiful poems of mourning and discovery of the almost infinite mind.

Ruth Stone