Reviews

Lisa Rizzo's luminous Always a Blue House takes us into a world that is both broken and beautiful. Things break apart or slip away - dishes, marriage, the tangled roots of a father's mind. And yet this wide-hearted poet does not turn away from the ache of our lives - the ache of a grown daughter watching a parent fade away, the ache of a child yearning for invisibility, the ache of a Daphne seeking to be wild and true / free from others' hands.... In Rizzo's beautiful, finely-crafted poems, a thrumming and radiant world bursts open �for us - the red rocks of the high desert, the grasslands in the Serengeti, a flower shop in Paris, five girls in Zanzibar, the blue, blue world.... -- Martha Andrews Donovan, author of Dress Her in Silk