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Temptation by Water may be obtained from your local
bookstore, from on-line vendors such as Amazon
or Barnes & Noble, or from the publisher. 
REVIEWS
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Inner Music
Midwest
Book Review
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Register
Innisfree
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Review
Very
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Verse
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Rattle
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Poemeleon
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Magazine
Valparaiso
Poetry Review
PIF
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The
Caldwells Patch
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www.dianelockward.com
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In Temptation
by Water, Diane Lockward "calculates
the sum of her griefs" with a vigorous and mature poetic
eye. Whether mourning
the loss of a lover’s touch or celebrating
steam rising from the slit of a baked potato, Lockward embraces
life’s luscious, naked flaws and ecstatic turns,
surrendering to desire and what’s left in
"the wreckage of absence."
— Dorianne Laux
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Praise for Diane Lockward's previous books —
What
Feeds Us
After reading What
Feeds Us, readers will not be able to look at pears and grapes, nor
use vanilla, without appreciating their new, Lockward-named qualities.
At the same time, Lockward acknowledges the places we hold sorrow. What Feeds Us refreshes readers with a full range of human
experience. It piques our senses as it does our emotions, satisfying
both.
— Christine Stewart-Nunez, Red
Rock Review
Against her meditative sense of loss, she balances the bristle of
irony and bad-girl delight in the wicked.
She seduces us with love and linguini, with split vanilla bean
and sun-glorious blooms that testify to the world’s abundance.
— Judith Montgomery,
Valparaiso
Poetry Review
Eve’s
Red Dress
Diane Lockward is a wickedly good poet . . .
very much in touch with how wayward human impulses can be and how
delicious also.
— Baron Wormser, former Poet
Laureate of Maine
She’s fearless and unafraid to let
her characters unmask . . . Appetite, eros, seduction, the domestic, the
abandonment and cruelty of the father shape the dark heart of this book
. . . She seeds her poems with a strident I’ve
got nothing to lose voice, at once intriguing and disarming.
— Elaine Sexton, Prairie
Schooner
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