Studies for an Actress and Other Poems Author:Jean Garrigue In Studies for an Actress and Other Poems, Jean Gratitude not only continues in the lyrical vein for which she has been known and highly praised by poets and critics alike but introduces a dramatic thrust, only suggested earlier, and deals with our contemporary world with the poets deep sense of commitment. — Indeed, in this seventh book... more » of poems, she has succeeded at what many other books of poems barely attempt: to reflect the world -- emotionally, spatially, and temporally -- with vital force and meticulous language. She displays the power to "make an art/ Of wedding opposites that hate/ And yet so attract," to convey a total dramatic experience in a few short lines or rollicking humor in a melodious metaphor, and above all, to achieve a new focus upon the dilemma of the artist and human being in our chaotic time.« less