(selected by Allison Joseph as the 2000 winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry)
This 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 |
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We need poets like Ruth L. Schwartz to remind us to listen, look, and hear one another's truths. Deft, sensual and fearless... Singular Bodies is a book not to be denied.
-- Allison Joseph
Ruth L. Schwartz places us firmly and relentlessly in the natural world, without sentimentality and without reservation...
Sensual and metaphysical... lush, vivid... She does her part with these poems to direct our eyes and our heearts, to awaken our attention, to remind us to notice this life, this world, and our own glorious, precarious, fortunate place in it.
-- Laura Newton, The Tallahassee Democrat
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