Roy Jacobstein

Winner of the 2002 The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry
selected by Edward Hirsch

"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."