Ripe
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Product Details
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (September 12, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0299182541
- ISBN-13: 978-0299182540
- Paperback: 92 pages
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.3 inches
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From the Back Cover:
"Nothing in Roy Jacobstein's large experience - a union barbershop in
mid-century Detroit, the obstetrics ward in a Cambodian refugee camp, the 'befuddlement'
of childhood, the wisdom of the nursing child, the lab, the boardroom, the luminous common
heritage of the printed page--nothing appears to have been lost on him or, thanks to him,
on us. In a world beset with loss, this exhilarating, mindful, compassionate book allows
us the dream of wholeness. It is tonic for the soul. It is (of how many books can this be
said?) from poem to poem and vista to vista, good company."
--Linda Gregerson
"Roy Jacobstein has a canny intellect and a deep empathetic imagination.
He writes here from the very midst of life--as a poet, a doctor, a Jew, a father, a son
pierced by memories of his lost midwestern childhood. We are beholden to what we love,
and Ripe is a first book of full maturity, of bittersweet experience and deep fruition,
of earthly plenitude."
--Edward Hirsch
"With near-surgical precision, this fine book confronts the mortal facts
of flesh with courage and humility while also performing improvisational celebrations
of life's amazing gifts."
--Dean Young
