NECESSARY ANGELS
ISBN: 978-0-9762114-5-7
Pub Date: Spring 2006
Pages: 80
By Carolyn Maisel
Necessary Angels, Carolyn Maisel’s second book of poetry, is actually two new books in a single volume— Pig Woman, written in the 1970s, and Light and Shadow, completed just before her death in 2006.
Carolyn Maisel’s poems are spoken by a sort of gnostic angel whose impulse is always to describe the indescribable, to say what cannot be said. The remarkable blend of passion and concision such poems required, the discipline they embody mark Maisel as a masterful poet. How fortunate we are to have had her lustrously imaginative spirit among us, and to have, now, this beautiful book.
--- Christopher Howell


