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Reviews for Life Class
by Eva Miodownik Oppenheim, poet, editor
Ruth Bookey's poems capture time and place with the sharp eye of a painter. Her recollections of a German childhood and the parents she loved are vivid, deeply felt, yet unsentimental and rich with wry humor. We get to know a loving father, and we follow a vibrant, dynamic mother into fragile old age. We feel the tensions of life in 1939 Berlin as experienced by a naive but trusting child. Bookey is an artist as well as poet. Her portrayal of the models in "Life Class" is closely observed, amusing yet poignant. She is also a master of the pantoum and sestina. In "Hip Music" she skillfully weaves a pantoum around her adolescent zeal for big bands all about "love and sex/yearning finding having losing." Her poems run the gamut from the darkness of wartime to the brilliant sunshine of spring in Maine.
Sample from Life Class
Feeling Spring
Same thing every year, we know that,
But it's always like it's the first time.
-- Erich Kastner
I drive,
listen
to you reading.
Suddenly I feel it,
sun's changed position.
It is higher in the sky,
light leans toward spring.
In spite of snow and ice
Spring's come
through the windshield.
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