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Critical Essay by Lorna Sage
The salty, shifty, tidal atmosphere Olga Broumas inhabits [in her Beginning with O]—with its bodies plugged with seaweed stoppers and fingered by starfish lovers...
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Critical Essay by Rob Colby
It is heartening to read a young woman poet who has not joined the Erica Jong Singalong. Olga Broumas … is one—a poet of fluid, complex, and urgent voice, who...
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Critical Essay by Helen Vendler
Olga Broumas, wishing to avoid timidity, falls into the pit of a desperately uncertain tone [as evidenced in Beginning with O]—sensational, full of bluster, pret...
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Critical Essay by Charles Berger
[Broumas'] poems, as everyone will remark, are frankly homo-erotic. I would also add that they are innocently erotic, amazingly unshadowed by guilt, remorse, or...
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