Sabra Loomis

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House Held Together by Winds. Harper Perennial. 2008. ISBN   978-0-06-157715-4.
  • Rosetree . Alice James Books. 1989. ISBN   978-0-914086-85-7.
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    The house in House Held Together by Winds is both mansion and metaphor. Our docent for each construction is a little girl in a lace collar whose satirical observations of her dominating relatives expose the fears at the root of chauvinism....Readers who allow themselves to be voyeuristically fascinated by the gothic eccentricities of these poems will be moved by the transformation. [9]

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    Sabra Loomis
    Born1938 (age 8384)
    OccupationPoet
    AwardsNational Poetry Series
    Academic background
    Alma mater New York University