A Reading (Complete) - by Beverly Dahlen (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A Reading may be the most important "least known" work of poetry of the last 40 years. It shimmers with deep dives into psychology and languagemaking, marking Dahlen as of the tribe of Virginia Woolf, HD, and her own contemporaries, some of whom, with her, are great writers of our time, and great groundbreakers in terms of the possibility of a women's, and a human, literature

About the Author

Beverly Dahlen, San Francisco, has published over a dozen books of poetry, known for their psychological depth and linguistic dexterity. The most well known work, A Reading, now has some six volumes and will be published as a single long book by Chax Press in 2026. Dahlen grew up in the Pacific Northwest, but as a young adult moved to the California Bay Area, where she became, by the 1970s, one of the women involved in writing a new sort of innovative poetry, through her own work and her work on the influential journal (HOW)ever.