Dear Good Naked Morning

by Ruth L. Schwartz

Overview

Winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize selected by Alicia Ostriker. Schwartz's Dear Good Naked Morning explores what it is to be a woman in love with the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932870039
Publisher:	Autumn House Press
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Series:	Autumn House Poetry Ser.
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

RUTH L. SCHWARTZ's three previous books of poems are Edgewater (HarperCollins, 2002), selected by Jane Hirschfield as a 2001 National Poetry Series winner; Singular Bodies (Anhinga 2001), winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; and Accordion Breathing and Dancing (University of Pittsburgh Press 1996), chosen by William Matthews for the 1994 Associated Writing Program Competition. Schwartz' memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story was published by Michigan State University Press in 2004. Schwartz currently lives in Oakland, California where she has a private practice in Depth Hypnosis and Shamanic Counseling.

What People are Saying About This

Alicia Ostriker

Here is an homage to our beautiful failures; for once, then, as another poet said--for once, then, something.

Editorial Reviews

The poems in this collection amount to a powerful affirmation of life whatever the circumstances. They speak of the hunger for love and for joy which is sometimes found in the darkest places. This is the central message of the book. The poems are written with a passion and an honesty that can only be a force for good.”—Neil Leadbeater, Galatea Resurrects

From the Publisher

This radiant collection of poems received the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize, the most recent in an impressive list of awards that include being a 2001 National Poetry Series winner. The 26 poems in this collection shape timeless themes of love, longing, and the physical world with exuberance and clarity. Echoing Walt Whitman, Schwartz writes, "Dear good naked morning,/ I miss you./ My ferocious perfume./ My green-melon joy." Here, the poet speaks to the morning as to a lover, articulating an impossible joy in the simple process of waking. Scholars of Whitman will relish this book, as will general readers of poetry. Highly recommended.-Heidi Arnold, formerly with American Theological Lib. Assn., Binghamton, NY Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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