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-Pablo Medina, author of The Floating Island (poems) and Cubop City Blues (a novel), a translation of Lorca's Poet in New York, and other works.
David Ruekberg's probing debut collection renders the world for readers, in many senses of the word. His poems distill experience to concrete moments of "magnolia blossom. . .Dutch Catholic schoolgirls. . .traffic's wreathed whine." They also present a world in flux. Past and present, creation and destruction coexist: a "half-world below heaven," where "the species will follow all species...it will die out"; where "The law commands the cells' bloom/in the body, light's intercourse with matter, the ions' banquet/of rust." Ruekberg marvels at it all, even at questions about the meaning of existence: "History is the ultimate act of faith. Plant an atom in darkness/and you sow a cosmos." By turns playful and solemn, the poems are generous invitations to consider the origins of life and its inevitable ends, to remember the fact that, at least sometimes, "everything murmurs and winks, as if holy."
-Tracy Youngblom, author of Growing Big and One Bird a Day
Author: David Ruekberg
ISBN-10: 1947465902
ISBN-13: 9781947465909
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2018
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d
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