About Lee Robinson's Hearsay
Hearsay, published by Fordham University Press in 2004, is Lee Robinson’s first collection of poetry (www.fordhampress.com, click onto “browse our fall titles”, then onto “Hearsay”). Hearsay is the 2003 winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize (www.poetsoutloud.com, click onto “POL Prize”) from Fordham University.
Hear Garrison Keillor of NPR's Writer's Almanac read poems from Hearsay (September 2004 / October 2004)
In his Foreword to the book, poet Robert Wrigley writes:
…Lee Robinson’s Hearsay is a compendium of the testimonies of a late-twentieth-century American woman. I take the book to be, in part, the autobiography of someone who has done much, seen much, and learned much, but that’s not why I love this book. What emerges in the course of these pages is the distillation of human experience into essence…(these are) the stories of my own blood and kin and soul, the enactments of what it means to be human…Maxine Kumin writes:
This book by a funny, smart feminist and former divorce lawyer is a delight to read. Her poems are poignant…and richly empathic throughout with the situations of other women...Robinson is wise and witty, a rare combination that makes for something rarer still—a confident first book.
Lee M Robinson