Trying to Speak

Anele Rubin divides between Brooklyn and New Kingston, New York. She has degrees from Louisiana State University and New York University. Her poems have been published in River Styx, The Midwest Quarterly, Great River Review, Bitter Oleander, Paterson Literary Review, Rhino, Potomac Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review

"The voice (in Anele Rubin's poems) is so new, and yet the movement is so artful, subtle, and modest - there are never any theatrics in these poems. They never yowl, Pay attention to me!... Rubin is on the same wave-length with Tomas Transtromer and Yehuda Amichai....The emotional range of her poems, like theirs, is enormous, as is the range of locales, many of which I know well, and yet in Trying to Speak, they appear with a clarity that had eluded me" - Phillip Levine, Judge "Anele Rubin's poems illuminate an astonishing range of emotional experience. Visual, tactile, simple and complex, her words lure you from poem to poem -- sometimes exquisite, sometimes austere, always original." - Ruth Stone"