Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness - Tapa blanda

"Barbaro proved to be the ultimate hero - he died trying. This book of poems provides a fitting and lyrical tribute to the hero." - Sean Clancy, author of Barbaro, the Horse Who Captured America's Heart and Saratoga Days "No one has written about race horses as beautifully and evocatively as Lyn Lifshin has done in this book on the tragic career of Barbaro and in her paean to the immortal Ruffian, The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian. Lifshin has been described by one reviewer as "frighteningly prolific," but, though that is an accurate description to be sure, her prolificacy does not in the least diminish the profundity and charming accessibility of her poems. Lifshin's observations of the unexpected rise and agonizing fall of Barbaro are acute and charged with empathy. These poems imbue the memory of Barbaro with a heroicism that is exquisite and rare, a quality that is sorely lacking in this modern age of prosaic anxiety and despair." - Joe LaRosa"

LYN LIFSHIN, whose Before It's Light won the Paterson Poetry Award, has published more than 100 books of poetry, and her work has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. Her new chapbook, Barbie Poems, is out.