Lie Awake Lake
Winner of the 2004 FIELD Poetry Prize, this most recent collection of poet Beckian Fritz Goldberg is a wry, elegant series of meditations on mortality and the body. According to Bruce Weigl, her poems are “breathtakingly beautiful and resolute in their conviction that words matter, especially in the fact of randomness and moral collapse.”
Bio
Beckian Fritz Goldberg is an alumna and a professor emeritus of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
'Lie Awake Lake' is made out of a brilliance of thought, of heart, and of language that we find only in the truest poetry. This fierce homage to the body and to the spirit reminds me of Ettie Hillesum's letters from the transit camp at Westerbork in the Netherlands in 1942–43; it is as relentless and unmediated as if it was letters or diaries, but it is song — come to give us human animals pleasure and to help us endure.
Jean Valentine
