You: Selected Poems and Knot: a Life

"About KNOT: A Life

?This is not only a moving, insightful family memoir, recognizing the way pain and attachment are braided too intricately for separation. Fan Ogilvie has also made an artful, writerly work, bringing cadences and sentences that recall Gertrude Stein to the immediacy of these materials.?
-Robert Pinsky
Poet Laureate
?Gulf Music?, newest collection


About Fan Ogilvie?s poetry:

?Fan Ogilvie?s poetry has a delightful intelligent trend that takes the reader through surreal and unexpected meanderings. Her quick twists surprise and at the same time unveil a keen sensitivity with piercing intuition that seizes both contrast and beauty. The settings, staged to etch her visions, become a continuous challenge in which we are directly involved.?
-Anny Ballardini
poet and creator of
Fieralingue, the Poet?s Corner, a web site

?Fan Ogilvie?s poems are truly wondrous in their jaded and hopeful musings on modern life both in a highly poetic and colloquial tone. In her poems we hear ourselves....?

-Carrie McGath
poet and reviewer of Fulcrum, an Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics in Literary Review Magazine

?Fan Ogilvie is one of the most sensitive and articulate poets alive when it comes to registering the shifts of nature and subtle changes in the cosmos of the mind. Each poem is an amazingly finely-tuned gauge for capturing the processes that form lived experience.?

-Katia Kapovich, poet
?Gogol in Rome?
?Cossacks and Bandits?

?Whoever said that the modern lyric is dead has not read Fan Ogilvie.?

-Philip Nikolayev
poet and critic
?Monkey Time?
?Letters from Aldenderry?
editor of Fulcrum, an annual of Poetry and Aesthetics

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