Chapbook, Facing Home is no sentimental or nostalgic gesture of Ruth’s, but rather a tough-minded en-counter with the subtle cruelties, blind-spots and betrayals that all who have marked time within families will recognize. Though disappointment and loss are inherent in the terrain, in which the cassette tape of a last phone message is preserved in a “velvet-lined box,” it speaks to tenderness as a counterweight to mortality. It’s the ability to balance on taut lines, juggling a wry and often pun-loving wit with moral courage, that makes these poems triumphs of form and candor.
5 ½” x 8” 36 pages
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