AllAmerican Girl Author:Robin Becker All-American Girls, says poet extraordinaire Maxine Kumin, is a lively mix of poems that reflect Becker's sexual and social identity in startling and often magically apt metaphors. The Philadelphia of her girlhood, her ancestral links to the shtetls of Eastern Europe, the mesas of New Mexico, her loved landscape, Italy...meet and meld in surpris... more »ing, satisfying juxtapositions. This is Becker's best work to date.« less