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About her artwork:

                ...we get a kind of richness as found in the reflecting
                material of gold and copper coloring.
                The various textual treatment adds spark as well as
                the vertical presentation.

                                Larry Bradshaw
                                Curator, Professor of Art
                                Upsteam People Gallery (Omaha, Nebraska)

About her poetry:

                It seems to me that a successful poem must above all strike a fine balance.
                (...)In what elements does a poem achieve this balance? In a word or image
                (words become "a dark bone in her ear" {from At an exhibition}. In a line or
                stanza break (a "mouth clogged/with scabs" {from Intimacy}. (...) Balance.
                The rightness and beauty of details.

                                                                Lesley Elliott
                                                        Poetry Editor of The New Quarterly
                                                        University of Waterloo, Canada

Gabriele Guenther's third-ranked poem "Oil of Fear" describes a relationship
between two young children of different cultural backgrounds, that might
have unfolded and blossomed, but in fact folded in upon itself and collapsed,
"heavy as a dead/body, or a religion/prying apart our folded hands." The fact
that the girl realizes she will "be spared/the furor/rampant between two
separate/worlds" does little to soothe our fears for the future of either of these worlds.

                                                        Maria Jacobs
                                                        Editor of Vintage 1993
                                                        League of Canadian Poets