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by: Ruth L. Schwartz
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780938078692
ISBN: 0938078690
Label: Anhinga Press
Manufacturer: Anhinga Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 98
Publication Date: September 01, 2001
Publisher: Anhinga Press
Sales Rank: 1925407
Studio: Anhinga Press
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Winner of the 2001 Anhinga Prize for Poetry
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Rating: - Singular Talent
Ruth Schwartz's singular talent is to find the beauty within the broken and to celebrate the eros of the everyday, wherever she finds it. Her poems speak of greasy-winged city pigeons with bald tumors, of lovers with damaged bodies, of cities poisoned by decay--and of her love for all these things. Love, in Schwartz's universe, is the great redeemer; she insists on it, and it does not fail her, or her poetry. In these broken times, her voice is needed more urgently than ever.
Rating: - Will admirably serve to introduce a major poetic talent
Ruth L. Schwartz is a singularly remarkable poetry whose work is as passionate as it is lyrical. Singular Bodies (winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry) will admirably serve to introduce a major poetic talent to reading public. Now The Crows Are Courting Us: cawing, spreading brilliant wings/feather by dark gleaming feather, as a lover would/if give wings; we picnic in the wild air.//before and after rain, suspended between storms,/the sparrows gathered at our feet,/the syrup taste of other ... Read More
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