Rekindled
America's Queen of the Small Presses
Lyn
Lifshin
For more than five decades, Lyn Lifshin (1942–2019) published over 130 books and chapbooks — building one of the most prolific and fiercely independent careers in contemporary American poetry.
Unbound by academia. Devoted to the small presses. Writing, for Lyn, was a biological necessity.
"A modern Emily Dickinson — intimate, obsessive,
and uncompromisingly herself." — Ed Sanders
Not Made
of Glass
In 1987, filmmaker Marilyn Richwine captured Lyn Lifshin's world in this extraordinary documentary — revealing the woman behind the poems: raw, relentless, and utterly alive.
Electric readings. Wads of manuscripts. A life inseparable from words.
Black
Apples
Black Apples: Enlarged Second Edition (1973) represents the pivotal work that launched Lyn Lifshin into the national spotlight — the collection that earned her the crown.
Spare, honest, and startlingly intimate. The voice that changed American poetry.
Cold
Comfort
The best of Lyn Lifshin — Cold Comfort: Selected Poems 1970–1996 distills 26 years of her most powerful work into a single essential volume.
Writing with energy, fire, and truth of the common world. Love, loss, women's lives — unmistakably her own.
One Relentless
Breath
"Queen of the Small Presses" — fiercely independent, utterly devoted to her craft. Every year, she submitted to over 100 literary journals. Writing was never a career. It was survival.
Her Words
Live On
Explore 130+ books, poems, media & the full story
of America's most prolific poet.