Critical Commentary:
"With the focus of flame, Sandra Dorr illuminates what we love, in her seeing, as it opens, closes, is, and is not."
Kim Stafford
"These poems reiterate world—its animal weight, its succulence, its liveness. Dorr knows that only by way of the multitudinous, minute particulars may we enter the Oneness."
Marilyn Krysl
“’Lilly Makes an A’ is a present-tense narrative of a domestic experience. The parent in the poem's kitchen watches her daughter learn to make the alphabet and graphically remembers her own experiences as a schoolgirl...The poem is a multilayered vision about language and learning language... I chose ‘Lilly Makes an A’ for its word play and sensuous description of how we come to make language.”
Diane Wakoski, judge, New Discovery Poetry Award
