Passing

by Eloise Klein Healy

"Between little corner taquerias/ and Thai home cooking joints," Eloise Klein Healy renders a post-modern Los Angeles, weaving elegies, lyrics and meditations into a provocative assemblage. She anchors the book with poems exploring gender identity and social relations, meditating on the Civil Rights movement ("our unnatural disaster over race"), the scourges of breast cancer and AIDS. She elegizes sister-poet Lynda Hull and honors the "oldest human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888996544
• ISBN13: 9781888996548
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Common Language, Uncommon Sensibility

Eloise Klein Healy could be the girl/poet-next-door, with her down-to-earth language and her affection for baseball and dogs and diners. But only if the girl/poet-next-door has a passion for other women, and a rage at injustice. In PASSING, Healy's fifth collection and perhaps her best yet, the poet also stops to extol and mourn those who have passed from her life: her father, the poets Lynda Hull and Gil Cuadros, photographer Francesca Woodman. The juxtaposition of these elegies with poems about opossums, magpies, constellations, and learning Spanish brings the sacred into dazzling collision with the everyday, and everything seems richer and more textured as a result.

I heard Eloise Klein Healy read at a Poetry Reading

I heard Eloise Klein Healy read at a poetry reading just last night ... and she was wonderful. She read a lot of the poems from her new book "Passings" and I enjoyed everyone of them. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Her raw honesty, humor, and talent make this book a MUST READ for all poetry fans!!! Everywhere I went to try and get a copy, the book was sold out. If you can get your hands on a copy of this book, you will not regret it!!! ...