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The Chicago Home
Copyright © 1986
by Linnea Johnson
Alice James Books
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Linnea Johnson's poems are strong and ardent and credible, full of
wisdom and indignation. They tell stories we need to hear, sung with the
pounding verve of the blood behind them. — Adrienne Rich
Readers of Linnea Johnson's first published collection of poems will
know her vision. No one is spared once eye touches page: every passion
and purge known to womankind is brought alive and bears weight;
abandonment at birth, the cold iron of the orphan's crib, seduction and
betrayal by family, pregnancy from rape, death from motel abortion,
miscarriage by brutality, beatings, the sanctions of a law that ties woman
to brutal husbands. ... These poems praise human love and the courage to
pursue it. Linnea Johnson is a superb, brave poet. Her books will be read
for generations. — Hilda Raz
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