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In Elegy for Etheridge Pinkie Gordon Lane embraces the reader with a heartfeltinvitation to shared human experiences. She quietly observes the panorama oflife that surrounds us all writing of family and friends trees and owls theexploitation of women on welfare and the devastation of the naturalenvironment. In so doing she acknowledges the most intimate agenda of ourlives loves and losses.Although Pinkie Gordon Lane is a native of Philadelphia the metaphoricalimagery in her poetry the primary component of her literary style isinspired by the southern landscape especially Louisiana her home for overforty years. A sense of loss permeates this engaging collection loss of bothloved ones and of love. In Songs to the Dialysis Machine Lane assumes thevoice of her late husband who in the years before his death depended onthe device that sucks the lifeflowing blood and sends it back as apromised gift. Love Poems Epitaph for the Blues speaks of the pain andguilt though not unmixed with joy that pervade an illicit love affairDarkness gathers brightly and my demon starlets dance like tinseled ghostson a saints night. In the title poem Lane laments the passing of black poetEtheridge Knight who spent many of his years in prison.Lanes melodic verses beg to be read aloud to be set to music. Her lyricalelegies affirm the late critic and poet Stephen Hendersons assessment of herwork as a crucial reminder that we cant afford to sacrifice any of ourexperience. «
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