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The 1993 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets
" Stained Glass is a distinguished and elegiac book: somber, frequently bitter, but always invested with an authentic, quite marvelous aesthetic dignity. It marks the emergence into highly individual voice of an important poet of the eminence of the late May Swenson, beyond the achievement of all but a double handful of living American poets. Some of the poems'Season Due,' 'Science Lessons,' most of all, 'The Broken Pot'are worthy of canonization."Harold Bloom
"Conspicuous in Rosanna Warren's poems is the passion that presses them into being, and the skill that transforms them into art."Anne Stevenson
"The glittering promise of Rosanna Warren's earlier work has now been fulfilled in the deeper gleam of this outstanding new book. Here are memorable and moving poems in which learning provides wings, rather than freight and in which grace augments, rather than saps, strength. In 'Eskimo Mother,' Pornography,' 'Tide Pickers,' 'Lena's House: Watercolor,' and the final powerful Homeric meditationto name only a fewshe clearly shows herself to be among the very best poets of her generation." John Hollander
"The cost of things, of every human connection: this is the central theme of Rosanna Warren's fierce and haunting second book. It is a measure of her command as a poet that where the elegiac theme runs deepest'Song,' 'The Cormorant,' and 'His Long Home' are examples, among many othersher craft most truly find itself."Amy Clampitt