Description: Cold Comfort is a book of poems written out of deep affection and concern for the world in a dangerous time. An urbane stylist, Anderson characteristically focuses on rural and small-town America, where the events of personal history intersect those of the larger world.
Review Quotes: I like Maggie Anderson's strong sense of place and the unsentimental attention she pays to her West Virginia origins. These are rooted poems. Even the vegetables' dreams rely on a vivid internal logic. As 'corn . . . the enormous yellow dirigible of August . . . dreams fair weather' and 'dill . . . drifts seeds onto cucumbers it schemes to marry, ' I am beguiled.-- "Maxine Kumin"