BRUCK, Julie. The Woman Downstairs. London [Ontario]: Brick Books, 1993. Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. 221x138mm. 58pp. New.

Author's First Book. Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and acquaintances of life, its small coincidences and occurrences, its unexpected meetings. With a passionate distance, Bruck blends the outside observer's cool embrace with a desire to know intensely life's eccentric smallnesses, to gentle the beautiful out of the mundane. By turns witty and thoughtful, Bruck's writing is always graceful, always a delight.