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Between One Future and the Next

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White her subject matter is varied, Daigon's music and language are consistent in their beauty. As a professional singer, she understands the music of poems, and she has an extaordinary way with image: fresh, provocative, original. Get in touch with a powerful poetry voice by reading "Between One Future and the Next". Read it slowly and let it wash over ou. Recognize your life in it, and your life that is to come.

To encounter Ruth Daigon's poetry is to meet at once an old friend at a coffee shop and an amazing wise-woman soothsayer on a village road. These beautiful poems celebrate life--not just any life, but a life lived fully. Daigon holds nothing back here as she explores the vicissitudes of a woman's life--raising children, having a family, being part of a couple, learning from one's history--the poems sing on the page. And the simple tasks of living-- planting, fishing, picking berries, washing clothes in winter, separating an orange-- take on a new vigor and transform into small windows of possibility. This book is a celebration and a treasure--one you'll keep and enjoy for life.

I highly recommend Ruth Daigon's new book Between One Future And The Next. It's lyrical and moving with a subtle operatic quality that reminds the reader that Daigon was, indeed, an opera singer. This is a finely-nuanced book, filled with fresh revelations about life and love. This is the book of a poet who understands both the darkness and light of life and is generous enough to share what she knows. I loved reading it and love owning it. In fact, I have given it as a gift to many of my friends.

Ruth Daigon's previous poetry collections (LEARNING NOT TO KILL YOU, ON MY SIDE OF THE BED, and A PORTABLE PAST)have consistently provided poetry that moved and provoked and entertained me. Poetry I thoroughly enjoyed and remember! Her newest collection, BETWEEN ONE FUTURE AND THE NEXT, is again a book I read initially with intense pleasure, and that I return to periodically. The poet's voice is what is particularly wonderful: her voice is a vibrant, joyous voice that celebrates life. Ruth Daigon writes with admirable, caring craft, often taking quotidian subjects (childhood, surroundings, relatives, domestic minutiae) all of which she transforms. She sees with a clear eye and writes with a magic pen.