Be That Empty
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass has said Alice B. Fogel’s work “twines the themes of complicated subjects, often in mesmerizing . . . form.” Current U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Simic has written: “To read Alice Fogel’s poems is to enter, or rather to be drawn, always toward an inner space. Every image, every word unlocks a secret door into a farther room. That, of course, takes art, and that is precisely what Fogel has plenty of. . . . Her poems shine with intelligence. Brooding and meditative, Fogel is a poet alert to every nuance of the inner life, a true phenomenologist of the soul.”
“The marvelous specificities of her poems demonstrate a fierce and admirable passion . . . a steadfast gaze at the natural world as intense and perfectly rendered as that of Rilke.” —Publishers Weekly
“I like the surprises in the language [Fogel uses] to keep turning in the mind.” —Beloit Poetry Journal “ ‘Ravishing perception’ seems to pervade Fogel’s work, and to do so both elegantly and powerfully. . . . One can see the dance of intellect from word to word . . . [to] dramatize the complexities of consciousness.” —Chelsea Magazine
