Edgewater: Poems (National Poetry Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060082534 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her other honors and awards include two Nimrod/Pablo Neruda Awards, two Chelsea Awards for Poetry, the New Letters Literary Award, the North Carolina Writers' Network Randall Jarrell Prize, Kalliope magazine's Sue Saniel Elkind Award, and a Reader's Choice Award from Prairie Schooner.. from Wesleyan University and her M.F.A. She teaches at California State Un
(Mark Doty)a level of poetic maturity that we’re used to seeing only in the best of our American poetry. (Jane Hirshfield)Ruth L. Schwartz will settle for nothing less than the essential. (Bruce Weigl, author of The Circle of Hanh) . Ruth Schwartz writes with consummate passion, precision, and honesty of the raw hungers that give rise to the world
One Star One good poem. The rest was crap.. Patricia Fargnoli, NH Poet Laureate 1"YES!" according to Patricia Fargnoli, NH Poet Laureate 12/2006-YES! This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. /2009. This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. /"YES!" according to Patricia Fargnoli, NH Poet Laureate 12/2006-YES! This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. /2009. This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. 006-YES! This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. /"YES!" according to Patricia Fargnoli, NH Poet Laureate 12/2006-YES! This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. /2009. This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan. 009 said YES!. This is a book to be read cover to coverthe poems progress that way, weaving in and out of personal experience to Edgewater, (both lake and metaphor), and back to personal experience again. And what experience!!! That of a sensitivity most deeply in touch with the world and the heart. A sensitivity that accepts life's hard places and embraces its wonderments. An unflinching sensuality. Always brave, always loving, these poems should be taken on a walk, or read in a forest, or on a beach or on a plan
Schwartz has reached a level of poetic maturity that we're used to seeing only in the best of our American poetry. Her passionate poems are alive to the vulnerability of the body, the daily possibility of joy, and the deep struggle not only to make sense of, but to affirm a world where the terrorists 'opened fire: / as if it were a box, now cracked, / consuming its own lid and hinges, / sparking out, unstoppable, / into the tender, / flammable world"' -- Mark Doty"Ruth L. Schwartz will settle for nothing less than the essential. Schwartz writes with consummate passion, precision, and honesty of the raw hungers that give rise to the world, human and natural. In poems both lyrical and grit-laced, she grapples with her twofold, central question: How can we love fully, open-eyed and openhearted amid all the flaws and beauty, each other and the world? How could we not?" -- Jane Hirshfield"Ruth L. "In Edgewater, her powerfully moving and redemptive third collection, Ruth L. She does this by reaching after and trying to understand the natural world and her place therein, and by modulating her poems with a subtle, ghostly music which has the capacity to lull us into understanding more about ourselves and about the wonderful ambiguities of living life,most fully." -- Bruce Weigl. She assumes a public voice in these poems, which speak to us rather than at us in the way they offer moral solutions to the problems of our modern wo