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Extended Family, Carcanet Press
Helena Nelson writing in Ambit, 2006
. . . . . .'Telling You' is shot through with erotic suspense, delicately potent '3lbs 6oz.' is exquisitely gentle. 'The Last Sane Thing' leaves the reader shivering. 'Limits' captures the pain of a damaged relationship magnificently, its emotive barb second to none. 'Pre-Op' and 'Beach Story' make the eyes prickle. This is a gifted and inventive poet, full of energy, craft, delight and despair. But even her despair glitters.
The Wedding Spy, Carcanet Press
Jehane Markham writing in Ambit, 2002
Linda Chase has a mature voice, encompassing the weight of experience as well as intensity of feeling... She has a laid-back conversational style which can contain a complex and much darker reality.
These Goodbyes, Fatchance Press
James Sale writing in Tears in the Fence 19
(Linda Chase's) poems are powerful and mature, sensual and acerbic... This is writing of a high order... a directness that neither evades nor titillates; a curiosity that investigates and interrogates the what-ifs of the human psyche; and a wit that made me laugh out loud.
Young Men Dancing, Smith/Doorstop
Tony Charles writes in Stride Magazine
Linda Chase. The impact she's made over the past couple of years is considerable, so it's hard to believe that Young Men Dancing is her first collection, yet that's apparently how it is. It's been worth waiting for: Ms. Chase's downbeat, ironic voice finds perfect speech rhythms; her expression is neither too long nor too short; and each individual poem says something which is worth saying.
