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Singular Bodies (Anhinga Prize for Poetry Series)

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Ruth Schwartz's singular talent is to find the beauty within the broken and to celebrate the eros of the everyday, wherever she finds it. Her poems speak of greasy-winged city pigeons with bald tumors, of lovers with damaged bodies, of cities poisoned by decay--and of her love for all these things. Love, in Schwartz's universe, is the great redeemer; she insists on it, and it does not fail her, or her poetry. In these broken times, her voice is needed more urgently than ever.

Ruth L. Schwartz is a singularly remarkable poetry whose work is as passionate as it is lyrical. Singular Bodies (winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry) will admirably serve to introduce a major poetic talent to reading public. Now The Crows Are Courting Us: cawing, spreading brilliant wings/feather by dark gleaming feather, as a lover would/if give wings; we picnic in the wild air.//before and after rain, suspended between storms,/the sparrows gathered at our feet,/the syrup taste of other countries//on the melons' flesh./Listening with such attention/to the music of each breath --//exuberant, recalcitrant,/the way life pulses shining/and demand in our hands.