Backtalk Poems

"Robin Becker reminds me that to be a Jew or a feminist is to live with duality-of culture, language, and dream. The several warring parts of a complex identity-imposed, inherited, chosen-don't make easy sense. Events are funny, painful, awkward, unassimilable. With passionate intelligence, Becker conjures them for me, and I identify."-Joan Larkin "Robin Becker's Backtalk makes us think back. The dialogues are exciting and there is a lot to look at. You may meet yourself in her book, with Becker standing over your shoulder, holding both her magnifying glass and mirror before you."- Off Our Backs "Robin Becker's poems tell truths of a special kind. Most of us know them already-in our gut and groin. Becker 'talks' from the 'back' of love, about those undervalued, repressed feelings that lovers often have difficulty being upfront about. These poems are like one half of a dialogue, social communication rather than solitary contemplations. People almost always occasion them; they are written to or about someone."- Valley AdvocateBecker, Robin is the author of 'Backtalk Poems' with ISBN 9780914086369 and ISBN 0914086367.