Miraculum: Poems
Ruth L. Schwartz will settle for nothing less than the essential. 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 the world. --Mark DotyRuth L. Schwartz has reached a level of poetic maturity that we're used to seeing only in the best of our American poetry... reaching after and trying to understand the natural world and her place therein, and 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 WeiglRuth L. Schwartz's poems are passionate and compassionate engagements with the sensuous richness that is this living world. Her empathy reaches broadly into every terrain and being, enlarging our understanding of the body's hunger not for continuance only, but for connection. There is not a poem in this book that could not be called a love poem. -Jane HirshfieldThis numinous, deep-hearted collection explores the redemptive quality of love - and its ability to hold even the hardest facts of physical life, disability and death in its enormous arms. These are generous poems. They deliver that most amazing of gifts: a faith that can be trusted, because it is not blind. --Alison LutermanRuth L. Schwartz has reached a level of poetic maturity that we're used to seeing only in the best of our American poetry... reaching after and trying to understand the natural world and her place therein, and 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 WeiglRuth L. Schwartz's poems are passionate and compassionate engagements with the sensuous richness that is this living world. Her empathy reaches broadly into every terrain and being, enlarging our understanding of the body's hunger not for continuance only, but for connection. There is not a poem in this book that could not be called a love poem. -Jane HirshfieldThis numinous, deep-hearted collection explores the redemptive quality of love - and its ability to hold even the hardest facts of physical life, disability and death in its enormous arms. These are generous poems. They deliver that most amazing of gifts: a faith that can be trusted, because it is not blind. - Alison Luterman --Alison Luterman