Blackberries in the Dreamhouse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781887472685)

"What would happen to us if we were to undertake the discipline of turning our life entirely and self-consciously into a poem? Through Yukiko, who becomes both a contemplative Buddhist and a geisha skilled in the refinements of sensuous pleasure, Diane Frank allows us to live within the soul of a young woman who has undertaken to create a life imagined and expressed as a poem, in every moment, waking and sleeping, making love or meditating. With its power of language, Blackberries in the Dream House will seduce many readers into considering whether a prosaic life is the only choice we have." Pierre DeLattre Author of Walking on Air and Tales of a Dalai Lama "Diane Frank's exquisite sensibility manifests throughout in Blackberries in the Dream House; it is both erotic and metaphysical. In fact, her great strength is that for her there's no division between the two. The result is this fine lyrical novel." Stephen Dunn Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet

Author: Diane Frank
ISBN-10: 1887472681
ISBN-13: 9781887472685
Publisher: Sunstar Publishing (IA)
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2002
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.08w x 0.47d

Review Citation(s):
Romantic Times 05/01/2003 pg. 43 - Very Good
Booklist 05/15/2003 pg. 1638