The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian
by Lyn Lifshin
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Author: Lyn LifshinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-10
ISBN: 1881515796
Number of pages: 113
Publisher: Texas Review Press
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Book Review: ***RUFFIAN***CHAMPION FOR THE AGES***
Summary: 4 Stars
RUFFIAN, is truly a breath taking epic of a true champion.
When we lost RUFFIAN, we lost more than just her. We lost
part of ourselves as well.
Summary of The Licorice Daughter: My Year with Ruffian
"Thoroughbred racing has never gotten over Ruffian. Lyn Lifshin came out of nowhere to become a Ruffian fan, a zealot for everything Ruffian stood for and all that she touched. Her poems will carry you away to a field of Kentucky foals, to the racetrack where each new horse could be the one, to the bone-numbing feeling of a runaway winner and to the despair of watching brilliance flame out. Ruffian would have liked Lifshin."-Sean Clancy, author of Saratoga Days"Eros and Equus perfectly combine in these sleek, sensual poems. From brilliant filly to tragic fatality, Lifshin keeps pace with this dark darling of the track, everybody's favorite-Ruffian."-Laura Chester
"These poems do the memory and legacy of Ruffian The Beauty justice at last. Poetry is the only medium to evoke the life and tragic death of this extraordinary horse, and Lyn Lifshin proves more than up to the task. They mirror the evolution of Ruffian's athletic prowess and striking black beauty with deft attentiveness and poignant detail. They do not merely honor the memory of Ruffian, but invoke the dynamic ghost of her radiant presence . . ."-Joe La Rosa
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