Praise for Need
“Alberta Turner is a poet of dark, forceful images, wrenched it seems from a life brisling with awareness. Her sense of the world, tersely expressed in the title of her book, is a recognition of human unfulfillment, of needs unmet between man and man and between man and nature. Her imagination strikes one over and over with its rightness as much as with its originality. I hope these poems will begin to be known more widely; they are fierce, stoic, and memorable.”
— Adrienne Rich
About the Author
Alberta Turner was born in New York City and graduated from Hunter College, Wellesley College, and the Ohio State University. Wife of an Oberlin College English Professor and mother of two grown children, she served as Professor of English and Director of the Poetry Center at Cleveland State University. She published, over a period of twenty-five years, in Canadian, British, and American magazines, and worked as Associate Editor of the poetry journal, Field.
