The Kingdom Where Everybody Sings Off Key - Couverture souple

Ruggieri, Helen

 
9780615792774: The Kingdom Where Everybody Sings Off Key

Synopsis

Remarkable, really, the way in The Kingdom Where Everybody Sings Off Key Helen Ruggieri moves from her life's early music when she was a teen angel with a Jersey Girl's desires, when in the dark of a car her angora sweater "electrified itself" as it slipped over her hair & when, somewhere, it was always 1955 with Little Richard & Elvis & doo-wop ? to, for example, the mature & spiritual reconciliations with the past that we hear in her penultimate poem in which she realizes "the larger rhythms rocking us" & embraces/makes a part of her being that "cepuscular kingdom / where no one keeps time." Yearning & yearning for the past subside, & the poet stands whole, in an off-key but deeply human twilight of poetry & deep understanding. This is a hard-earned, wonderful book.
~ William Heyen

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À propos de l'auteur

Helen Ruggieri studied with the late William Stafford at the Atlantic Center for Arts and with John Balaban at Penn State. She has several chapbooks – Rock City Hill Exercises, The Poetess, Concrete Madonna, and Glimmer Girls. Her book - Butterflies Under A Japanese Moon--is from Kitsune Press. She has published in many magazines over the years including Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Earth’s Daughters, Hotel Amerika, and elsewhere. See www.HelenRuggieri.com to view her video of Abutsu – a 13th Century Buddhist nun.

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