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Dear Good Naked Morning by Ruth L. Schwartz
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ISBN (paperback): 1-932870-03-2 About the Book Winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Alicia Ostriker
Dear Good Naked Morning follows Adam Zagajewski’s admonishment, “Try to praise the mutilated world.” Poem after poem here, beginning with the naked bravery of the title, caused my eyes to open wide, my breath to catch, made me shout aloud with delight at some fresh excess of insight, some dazzling flicker of truth, some spurt of living metaphor, some wild phrase of music. Here is an homage to our beautiful failures; for once, then, as another poet said — for once, then something. –Alicia Ostriker Ruth L. Schwartz writes with consummate passion, precision and honesty of the raw hungers that give rise to the world. –Jane Hirschfield Ruth L. Schwartz will settle for nothing less than the essential. Her passionate poems are alive to the vulnerability of the body, the daily possibility of joy, and the deep struggle not only to make sense of, but to affirm the world. –Mark Doty About the Author Ruth L. Schwartz’s Dear Good Naked Morning is the winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her three previous books of poems are Edgewater (HarperCollins, 2002), selected by Jane Hirshfield 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’s memoir, Death in Reverse: A Love Story was published by Michigan State University Press in 2004. Schwartz’s poems have reached a large audience through Ted Kooser’s nationally syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry and through Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. She currently lives in Oakland, California where she has a private practice in Depth Hypnosis and Shamanic Counseling. |
