Driving Off the Horizon

Poems of family, friends, and place: the Midwest, the rolling Virginia countryside and Israel. Endorsements follow: "Lynne Cohn provides a fresh voice in contemporary poetry. She explores what it means to be a young American Jewish woman in the last decades of the 20th century. Her poetry takes her readers from the rolling hills of Virginia farmlands to the rugged landscapes of the Middle East." -Jane Elkington Wohl, Ph.D. "'We know so much that we have begun to forget,' Lynne Cohn concludes in After The Bombs. Hers is the generation unshielded from the news. 'Where does one walk after a bombing?' the poem asks. Perhaps into the intense focus of the living moment--'as if you were a newborn.../as if the only thing I could focus on/was trying not to drop you.' Gathering up the present. Claiming it and her own life through these poems." -Myra Sklarew