Praise for Beauty
“What's remarkable is Meltz's prose. Her narrator...empathizes with animals and thinks like an animal . . . . She vows, 'I will become the poem I'm writing.' Her poetry is both sensual and knowledgeable, and it does not falter.”
-- Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times
“Mindi Meltz is a name to remember . . . what a delight for anyone looking for a new, unashamedly committed, and unique voice . . . . The lyricism of the girl’s longing is like a song of primal loneliness, cutting through her soul and splintering across the wilderness landscape.”
-- Cauley Bennett, Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine
“I have never read a more sensual book.”
-- Rebecca’s Reads
"Beauty certainly lives up to its title. Meltz's prose is rhythmic, sensuous, and elegant. Her language unifies the realms of nature and human emotions, and she enters the consciousness of other species with uncanny sensibility and deepest respect. This is archetypal romance in a setting that exposes our inescapable connections with all the rapture, eroticism and violence of the natural world."
-- William Carpenter, PhD, author of The Wooden Nickel
"Meltz writes beautifully about winter and wildness, about desire and the northern forest . . ."
-- Catherine Reid, PhD, author of Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
"Using nature and its elements as the characters . . . Meltz has a very original story here, unlike any other. For nature lovers who are also fiction lovers, ‘Beauty’ is a choice pick."
-- Midwest Book Review
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-- Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times
“Mindi Meltz is a name to remember . . . what a delight for anyone looking for a new, unashamedly committed, and unique voice . . . . The lyricism of the girl’s longing is like a song of primal loneliness, cutting through her soul and splintering across the wilderness landscape.”
-- Cauley Bennett, Rapid River Arts & Culture Magazine
“I have never read a more sensual book.”
-- Rebecca’s Reads
"Beauty certainly lives up to its title. Meltz's prose is rhythmic, sensuous, and elegant. Her language unifies the realms of nature and human emotions, and she enters the consciousness of other species with uncanny sensibility and deepest respect. This is archetypal romance in a setting that exposes our inescapable connections with all the rapture, eroticism and violence of the natural world."
-- William Carpenter, PhD, author of The Wooden Nickel
"Meltz writes beautifully about winter and wildness, about desire and the northern forest . . ."
-- Catherine Reid, PhD, author of Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst
"Using nature and its elements as the characters . . . Meltz has a very original story here, unlike any other. For nature lovers who are also fiction lovers, ‘Beauty’ is a choice pick."
-- Midwest Book Review
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