Ruth Daigon, Between One Future and the Next,
(Papier-Mache Press)
Jack Foley
Ruth Daigon's work is exquisite in its ability to move between memory and the present: "It takes time to cut tenderly into the bone and sinew of the past"; "We invent a lifetime out of small things." Who else writes so beautifully of love in middle age? The nostalgia at the heart of her work is never cloying or harmful: rather, it gives her context for understanding the present. The wisdom of these poems is the wisdom of a person whose heart continually goes out to the small, the detailed, the domestic. It is a poetry--and a music--of deep attentiveness:
She patrols the shadows.
I separate sounds that enter
from sounds that leave.
("The Fox")
Jack Foley
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