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by Mark Melnicove, poet, teacher, editor, publisher

Zooming back and forth from city to country settings, as it unifies ancient scripture with contemporary line and love, Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel's poetry, like a comet whose appearance has been predicted for decades, lays hot licks on cool tracks. As with her hero Anna Magnani's acting, Wrobel's poems, in radiant political and personal gyrations, grind "philosophy" into "ash" in a searing vision "beyond all shame."

by Nancy A. Henry, poet, teacher

"People love each other.
That is the revolutionary
thing to do," writes Anna Bat-Chai Wrobel. A scholar and teacher of history, a woman who has lived deeply in the currents of the turbulent past century and whose blood carries the sap of those who survived and those who perished in dark times, Wrobel knows her revolutions. A passionate devourer of story and nurturer of young artistic souls, she knows how to make us care; to set fire to the heart. Wrobel has taken the city of her youth into her bones; she has taken the country of her mature years into her soul; her words enflesh the abstract "love"; each poem a spark of revolution.