Fugitive Pigments
The visual arts inform the poems of Fugitive Pigments,  exquisitely detailed displaying an artist's eye and a writer's ear. Poems that deal with family benefit from the precision of objects as the poet illuminates still life into animation. Ekphrastic poems sail from perceptive description into an often perilous present. Perception is the keyword for Bavetta's poems, alight with images that adhere to the mind like paint to the canvas. Her concluding poem "Self Portrait" tells us how life can be transmuted by art.Joan Colby,Dead Horses, The Atrocity Book:Poems, Blue Woman Dancing in the NerveRuth Bavetta's poems are tableaux: images in  snapshots, excruciatingly detailed minutiae on canvases, lyrics in water colors--all painted or designed uniquely by this artist/poet infugitive pigments, whose tints fade and change over time like the impermanence of life itself.Nina Romano:Cooking Lessons, Coffeehouse Meditations, She Wouldn't Sing at My Wedding.