| #896122 in Books | Beacon Press | 1998-12-30 | 1998-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.35 x5.50l,.30 | File type: PDF | 144 pages | ||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Ruth Forman, Word Goddess, Spell-weaver...|By Qevin Oji|I heard this gifted poet at a reading at The World Stage (12/22/2004) in Los Angeles' Leimert Park Arts District tonight. I had never heard of her before. Well, maybe her name "rings a bell," but that is beside the point.
This young woman-poet's word-weaving is nothing short of spell-binding, affirming, healingl|From Library Journal|Forman, who won the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and appeared in the PBS series The United States of Poetry, offers her second book of poems. Stunning and beautiful, they use incantatory language that heals; through references to writers of
Renaissance, Ruth Forman's second collection, speaks of the timeless themes of family, death, love, and rebirth in the inimitable voice Booklist called 'sexy, bittersweet, funny, feisty, and real.' With poetry that conveys a defiant, enlivened spirit and has won her acclaim, Ruth Forman measures the losses and celebrates the future of a generation.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Renaissance (Bluestreak Series) | Ruth Forman.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.