Reviews
"eerily calm and anything but bloodless. Tough and impressive." Dorine Jennette, The Georgia Review"Bachmann's poems grabbed me because of their violence-was I just looking for it?-but it was a violence which was often implied, a sense of foreboding, a mood often just beneath the surface, rather than Wertmuller's horrifying image of a family of ten being gunned down in a mass grave. And it's not that I don't like Wertmuller's films-I do. I guess this particular evening I just wanted the striptease, not the naked body; the faint hint of heat, not the bottle of Tabasco." D.A. Powell @ harriet the poetry foundation blog
"Reading Beth Bachmann's poems is a little like having sex in a graveyard. In one sense, there is no location where having sex could be more wrong...But I can't think of any other act that might honor death more than one which allows you to forget about it completely. Her language has this kind of oppositional tension, respecting movement and the stillness that comes before and after." Sommer Browning, Multifarious Array
"Is "beauty" what one thinks of when one thinks of a weapon?" Charles Rammelkamp, Heavy Bear
"quirky, fresh, linguistically flippant, syntactically idiosyncratic, and emotionally uncompromising." James Hoch, Black Warrior Review
Interviews
"I'd like to see Swan Lake." 12 or 20 questions @ rob mclennan's blog
