A Partial List of Comments on Jane Lazarre's Books: Writers and Reviews

“There is a formality in these pages, a reliance on structure to contain the powerful yet often restrained emotions. Light, nature, mourning, and love provide a deep and familiar comfort and stimulation that remain long after we’ve stopped reading.”

From the Introduction by Dr. Miryam Sivan
Breaking Light

“I spent the day reading one poem after the other, amazed and comforted by what Jane Lazarre has managed to get down in words and musical lines. The poem that struck me perhaps the deepest is Shubert Sinking In, how she manages to link music–that cello, that violin–with the music of words, rising and falling, the exultation of hope amidst the dark despair of our lives–something I have pondered for years, but which Lazarre actually got down on the page in Breaking Light.”

Paul Mariani
Breaking Light

“Jane Lazarre is one of America’s foremost writers of memoirs, a few of which—among them The Mother Knot and The Communist and the Communist’s Daughter—are seminal works of contemporary non-fiction. She’s also a respected and accomplished novelist. But with Breaking Light— her first full-length volume of poems—Lazarre establishes her impressive bona fides as a poet who has important and urgent things to say and writes about them with a generous heart, depth and admirable craft.”

Jaime Manrique - Breaking Light
Breaking Light

“Jane Lazarre excels in all forms, across multiple genres. Here, in Breaking Light, she gives us poetry as insightful as it is illuminating; poetry that you will want to return to again and again and again.”

Farah Jasmine Griffin
Breaking Light

“The poems in Jane Lazarre’s Breaking Light are dazzling and powerful. Quite an accomplishment to write about bodies in so strong and true a way.”

Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Breaking Light
Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“The poems in Breaking Light sing of truth. There is power in words that refuse to let go, as these poems show. Their illumination and clarity insist on not forgetting.”

Beverly Gologorsky
Breaking Light