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Reviews
In a voice both distinctive and knowing award-winning poet Ruth daigon chronicles the past with an intense awareness of how it shapes the present and anticipates the future.
"Whether making the things of the outer world vividly presnt or opening the way into a multitude of inner lives and emotion, Ruth Daigon's voice in these poems serves as a clear, welcome guide. Her abiding vision is of a life open to the possible. Between One Future and the Next is a fine celebratory book: not closing its eyes to pain, not closing its eyes to grief, it continues to reside in affirmation and hope".
--Jane Hirshfied, author of The October Palace
"Ruth Daigon's poems, clear and musical, start with the simple things of "real life"--nature, the weather, family and memory--and by the alchemical power and concentration of imagination transform them to hymns of Love and Death. "Between One Future and the Next" is an impressive and important book."
-- George Garrett
"One of Ruth Daigon's poems says:'we invent a lifetime out of small things,'and the poems in this volume beautifully register what this means..........What we read here is familiar and shareable. The lifetime in this book is an invention not because it is imaginary but because it is imaginatively evoked."
-- David Ferry author of Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
"Between One Future and the Next" recounts decisive moments whose sum total defines a life. As such, it is the perfect title for a significant lyrical work as accomplished as any by William Stafford."
--Michael J. Bugeja, author of The Art & Craft of Poetry
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