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How she does it, I can't tell you, but in Rose Lobel's poems doors open. You find yourself in a room you could never have anticipated. And she's brought you there phrase by beautiful phrase.

- Patrice Vecchione
Author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and founder of Poetry By The Bay