The Woman Who Married Herself

A Sinclair Poetry Prize Finalist 
 
"Break us," says Donna Spector, "and love pours out." In The Woman Who Married Herself, poetry pours out as well, in poems of heartbreak and nostalgia, irony and laughter, reverie and acuity. This is a poetry that probes at life, discovering in the dramatic encounters with the past and present a knowledge of the world and of oneself that deepens and enriches our lives, too, marrying sensitivity with intelligence. Paul Kane 
 
In The Woman Who Married Herself, Donna Spector gives us the gift of honesty and specificity to create powerful and rooted poems that bring us to tears. She makes us believe we know the people she writes about, know the complexities of life with all its confusion and shame, love and loss. These poems teach  us  how  to survive.  You will want  to  read  this  book again  and again. Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Winner of American Book Award, 2008 for All That Lies Between Us
 
 “Donna Spector’s book  is wonderful—surreal,  quirky,  comical, full  of life. Poems of childhood and family history, lovers and longing, travel, love as  a  search  for  life.  Poems  about  her  teachers—John  Berryman,  Thom Gunn,  Louis  Simpson.  The  Woman  Who  Married  Herself  “[o]pened  boxes  of china/so fine she could hold/a plate to the light and see her own/life beyond.” A perfect description  of  this  book.”   Sharon  Doubiago, 
Love  on  the  Streets, Selected and New Poems, My Father’s Love, Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl