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From Ralph M. Leary<\/div>

“The Karl Marx Play” by Rochelle Owens is an expressionist, biographical drama that presents a multifaceted exploration of the life and psyche of Karl Marx. The play opens with a series of striking visual images, including portraits of Marx, which serve to introduce him as a complex figure\u2014both a family man and a revolutionary thinker, while also highlighting his vulnerabilities and insecurities. The narrative is not a straightforward biography; instead, it delves into Marx’s internal struggles, showcasing his relationships with key figures such as his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, and his friend, Friedrich Engels. Click here<\/strong><\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Pamela Monk, Pennsylvania State University<\/div>

ROCHELLE OWENS’S DISTINCT VOICE neither whispers nor shouts. In the measured delivery of one person telling another a good joke, she devises scenarios of outrage, injustice, and absurdity. Each of the four plays in the present collection thoroughly savages some aspect of the human experience. If you want to be comforted by the belief that there can be simple affection between a man and a woman, that searing hatred can be fended off by love, that cultural differences can be surmounted by understanding, that business is not rape and exploitation, look elsewhere. There is no easy comfort here. Click here<\/a><\/strong> to read more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Jerome Rothenberg’s comment on Hermaphropoetics \/ Brown Dust<\/div>

“Rochelle Owens’ “Hermaphropoetics”, a work in progress that continues the poetic & mythopoetic reach of her oeuvre as it has come to us since the 1960s. For me she remains, as she was when we first came to know her, a poet who bends the resources of language toward the revelation & creation of a new & always startling vision of the real & more-than-real.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From New York Times<\/div>

“Beclch.” Tantalizing! Owens has a rare and daring dramatic imagination. Hieronymus Bosch would feel at home and even the famous Kraft-Ebbing would! Raw and tough, belching fire and brimstone.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Jerome Rothenberg has said<\/div>

There is a voice in Owens’ work that seems to some of us\u2014when first heard\u2014like a fierce and unrelenting force of nature. She combines a landscape with a poetics, the domestic with the mythic, machines with the organic living world, sharp and visual\u2014from which arises a construct and a fused vision: poetry and life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Marjorie Perloff has said about “Luca: Discourse on Life and Death”<\/div>

Rochelle Owens’ writing is ‘sui generis’, brilliantly inventive, immensely learned, sophisticated and witty in its conceits. Hers is a universe of stark gesture, lightning flash, and uncompromising judgement, a poetic microstructure in its superb modulations of rhythms and internal rhymes, its ironies and paradoxes. An astonishing body of work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Parnassus, Poetry in Review<\/div>

Like the one alert sentry before an enemy attack, Owens uses images to jolt her public awake and summon it to lifesaving responses to evil.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From New York Times<\/div>

“Chucky’s Hunch.” The character of Chucky reaches truly heroic proportions. A penetrating chain letter from the heart. A wonderful mixture of anger, madness, regret and self-incriminating introspection. Attention must be paid. A rare and daring dramatic imagination.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Library Journal<\/div>

For more than forty years Owens has been at the center of America’s avant-garde…important for any large or modern literature collection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From the Village Voice<\/div>

The genius of Owens’ work lies not in ideological commitments but in her access to the subconscious. One of our most courageous and insightful artists….and perhaps the most profound tragic playwright in the American theater.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Karl Young Has Said<\/div>

… truly ahead of her time. In the early sixties Owens foreshadowed several literary movements that followed at least a decade later.<\/p>\n

… she was doing some of the most adventurous work of the second half of the century.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From The Times<\/div>

One of the best known American playwrights in Britain on the strength of her play ‘Futz’ is Rochelle Owens. There is no question of her independence of imagination or its relevance to America.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From American Women Writers<\/div>

Owens’ dramatic imagination and verbal creativity mark her as a notable postmodern writer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Saturday Review<\/div>

“Futz” is one of the most original and uninhibited pieces of dramatic literature ever written.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Modern American Drama 1945-1990<\/div>

Owens’ risk-taking is more radical in certain respects than Beckett or Shepard.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From New York Post<\/div>

Chucky’s Hunch is a funny wonderful play. Rochelle Owens’ comic flame has never burnt so bright, but like the eye of the tiger, it is savage!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Village Voice<\/div>

Rochelle Owens’ monodrama about an untamed abstract painter and his perplexing relations with America in the shape of his ex-wife and mother is a triumph of sustained verbal fireworks! Not to be missed!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Marjorie Perloff has Said About “Solitary Workwoman”<\/div>

Rochelle Owens’ inventiveness and imagination are always amazing, brilliant insight. The narrative poems in a language both subtle and devastating, another remarkable accomplishment\u2014like the Grimm brothers turned inside out.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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From Rain Taxi<\/div>

“Solitary Workwoman”, a book-length poem is the latest deployment of Rochelle Owens’ highly original intuitive intelligence. It is a potent postmodern mythic vision of Everywoman…Owens’ language is luxurious, gem-incrusted, over the top, fearless in revelation of desire to be reborn, to search for utopia and to face up to finding apocalypse….Rochelle Owens writes poetry like nobody but nobody else.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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