|
||
| Quotes about the Book In this exquisite poem the biblical Queen of Sheba tells the story of her visit to King Solomon. In language as evocative as it is economical Sheba simply recounts the facts of her extraordinary journey, but her feelings are implicit in the beautifully nuanced details. Water, the substance so precious in that arid region, appears throughout the poem as a metaphor for love and liberation. The delicacy of the text is echoed in Jeffrey Abt's drawings, which illustrates this remarkably handsome book."
-Lisel Mueller, author of Alive Together, winner 1997 Pulitzer Prize, Poetry "This is stitched music. Herein, Alice works language to it's limits. Long ago she learned just how much can be done with ordinary words, with customary sounds. And yet-no forcing! This book is sheer beauty, physically and spiritually-with drawings by Jeffrey Abt and design by Greer Allen. Richly spare!" -Gwendolyn Brooks. 1950 Pulitzer Prize, poetry and Poet Laureate of Illinois |
Both the poet and the artist sought deliberately to give the publication a timeless feel which resonates with both the antiquity of the biblical story and the lands in which it is based. 
