Alan Hardy, New Hope International Review Online
There is without doubt an admirable, in no way easy originality about these poems.
Onder Ötcu, First Intensity, 2002
Lessing's poetry is that of a transience of voice ... voice that is free from whatever it is usually understood to be.
About the Author
Karin Lessing was born in Goerlitz, Silesia in 1938, and was raised in the USA. She has been living in the south of France since 1962. This is her fourth collection of poems, and the second from Shearsman Books.