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BOOKS
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ISBN: 0-9700382-8-3
Book Design: John Masterson |
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In Ten Minutes, Beatrix Gates’ poems look long and deep into darkness.
The often terrifying world they face, both human and natural, is large,
close, mysterious, and real. Observed with honesty and tenderness,
charged with quiet and violence, infused with the rhythms of speech and
water and the unexpected grace of changing light, these poems embrace
a startling and hard-won acceptance that I want to call hope.
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All other orders via tenminutes@earthlink.net Painted Leaf Press, 1998 Book Design: John Masterson |
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These are some of the strongest poems I know–tough without meanness
or complaint, new knowledge and the language to carry them. This is a poet who doesn't blink yet has the power to transform the
awkward and dangerous facts of our lives into healing song. Major contemporary themes–eros, AIDS child abuse, friendship,
homelessness--emerge free of cliche from the hush of her unflinching
awareness. Her language is beautifully lucid–modest and dazzling, so
that we see our crimes and privileges in her view, rising out of her
anguished love-affair with the real world. |
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Ten Minutes 
In the Open
BEATRIX GATES’ new book, Ten Minutes, was published in 2006. Her previous poetry collections are native tongue, Shooting at
Night and In the Open which was a Lambda Poetry Award finalist. Gates has been
a fellow in poetry at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony and the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts. As librettist and conceiver of the opera, “The
Singing Bridge,” music by composer Anna Dembska, she and the composer
received support from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA/NEA;
the LEF and Davis Foundations and Open Meadows’ PatsyLu Fund. “The
Singing Bridge,” produced by Opera House Arts, premiered at Maine’s
Stonington Opera House in 2005. In another collaboration, Beatrix Gates and
Electa Arenal were awarded a 2003 Witter Bynner Translation Residency at the
Sante Fe Art Institute to co-translate poems by contemporary Spanish poet Jesus
Aguado; their co-translations of Aguado’s work have appeared in "Tarpaulin Sky”; Sam Hamill's POETS AGAINST THE WAR; and are forthcoming in "Sirena." Gates edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Writings and Photographs on
Love (Anchor), and founded Granite Press (1973-1989) in Penobscot, Maine.
Gates currently teaches in the Goddard College MFA Program.