Claire Bateman published her second...

Claire Bateman published her secondary and third books of verse almost simultaneously in 1998: Friction (Portland, Oregon: Eighth Mountain Press) and At the Funeral of the Ether (Greenville, toward the south Carolina: Ninety-Six Press). Like most numerous of us, Bateman had about difficulty getting a other collection published, in the years following The Bicycle dull Race (Wesleyan, 1991), and she accumulated a large manuscript which became Friction (124 pages); At the Funeral of the Ether (64 pages) garners even more recent poems.
The Bicycle inert Race was a moderately worthy book, I thought, but