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Reviews
"The compressed poems in Crossing The Double Yellow Line take us to a sense of place, to loved ones by way of sharp turns and hair pin curves. I believe and trust the voices captured in these poems that drive us toward the vortex of what matters."
-Yusef Komunyakaa
"Reading a poem written by Stellasue Lee is like a spiritual meditation upon what it means to be human in this world of joy and disappointment. I have personally witnessed the power and impact of her work on audiences from New Hampshire to Los Angeles. She has her finger delicately placed on our collective pulse."
- M.L. Liebler, Dir of YMCA Nat. Writer's Voice Project of Detroit
"Stellasue Lee has written powerfull father daughter poems of healing and forgiveness. She is a poet of deep insight and compassion."
- Diane Wakoski
"Crossing The Double Yellow Line is an intricate and poignant journey as accessible and unpretentious as an open road. But the landscape is that of a human life, and Stellasue Lee navigates the twists and turns with remarkable facility as the trip takes us from pain to passion. As in any journey, discovery is the goal, and time and again, these poems do not disappoint."
-James Michael Robbins, Editor, Sulphur River Lit. Review Press
"Stellasue Lee's poetry deserves a wide and serious audience. It has the power to heal us. This poetry speaks to us from a hand and head united, from a woman who has suffered, survived, and has built for herself a strength beyond that which is ordinary. It speaks for and to all of us at a spiritual level with potency and power. I will always treasure Crossing The Double Yellow Line because it does not just read like the best poetry, of the highest order, it reads like a memoir."
- Willie James King
copyright 1991, ISBN 0-94107-22-2
A collection co-authored with Ronald Alexander, Cynthia Kulikov, and Ian Ranall Wilson. "After I Fall" is a chorus of four separate voices blended by the commonality of shared experiences. As individuals the authors are strikingly different, yet in this collection of sometimes tender, sometimes sad, and sometimes painful poems, they share the hurt and desires of everyday life. |
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Stellasue Lee's "Anniversary" is an impeccably simple description of a moment in marriage, but the poem gets kicked by the pun in the last line beyond personal anecdote to universal irony. "Things My Father Said" seems to exactly quote Lee's father lecturing his daughter on how to paint a house. His lesson on how to be a good painter is also a lesson on how to be a good person. He wants her to know how to do things right. Stellasue brings the father to life but says nothing about the daughter's response. It is an inspired reticence: because half the story is left out, there's room for my imagination to take fire."
- William Slattery
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