Crazing, by Ruth Thompson
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Beginning where "The White Queen" (Woman With Crows) ends, in the loss of “memory, cleverness, concentration” and the hope of “light through the cracks,” this new book by poet Ruth Thompson explores aging, loss, and the “delamination” of the earth whose body she shares. “We are blown here out of sight of ourselves,” she writes, “staggering and dismayed.” Yet dissolution resolves in expansion, laughter, joy – “seeing, in this dire wind, what there is to worship.”
Crazing, by Ruth Thompson- Published on: 2015-06-10
- Released on: 2015-06-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "If you are beyond midlife or love someone who is, Thompson's third volume of poetry is a gift of nurture. Read these poems several times over; between lines compelling within themselves emerges a sense of inevitability we tend to turn away from. This book is a mirror reflecting beauty in aging, changing, becoming other-than-we-were. These thirty-five poems are a bouquet of wisdom."Story Circle Book Reviews, July 8 2015. storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/crazing.shtml"Contemporary poet Ruth Thompson inspires me with her vision of mature womanhood and life in harmony with nature. I reviewed her previous full-length collection, Woman With Crows, on the blog last year....The mature and courageous poems in ... Crazing (Saddle Road Press, 2015), teach us to discern the difference between natural and unnatural change... with extraordinary grace and playfulness>" Reiter's Block, jendireiter.com/2015/06/28/chapbook-spotlight-two-poems-from-ruth-thompsons-crazing/
From the Back Cover Ruth Thompson's Crazing is a map "in rift-zones, thready tributaries--" Here Pythia's dementia is oracular, "the rock itself/cracks, the mineral soul/exposed." The body is a profoundly inhabited and permeable collaboration with the world: "When I was a canyon, the sun scattered gold dust/down the walls of my forearms my breastbone's slide-tongue/into the childless pelvis of empty valley floor./'Who are you and what do you love?'" The passage of time crackles the surface of skins and minds into "a hollow of remembered flesh: a semaphore of spine." These poems vibrate on the page with essential, powerful life-force, in language as playful and gorgeously-lit as it is sharply wise. Thompson's work offers multiple intelligences we direly need in our mortal, vulnerable passage through this beautiful and difficult world, "our great bright barge of stone and light." Jessamyn Smyth, author of Kitsune (Finishing Line Press)Ruth Thompson responds with extraordinary grace and playfulness to the scattering of her mental and physical abilities in old age, the "crazing" of the glaze that gives the vessel its character, the cracks in the body's shell from which the spirit emerges like a baby chick. She mourns not for herself but for lost tree species, droughts, and future generations who may "die thirsty, telling stories of our green shade." Her acceptance of her personal body's limitations shows us a humbler, more sustainable way to inhabit the body of Mother Earth. Jendi Reiter, author of Bullies in LoveRuth Thompson's new chapbook Crazing sings with beauty, loss, and hope. Her poems boom and soar, full of movement and sensory experience caught in gorgeous, chewable language. Some poets' work can be read silently: but these pieces demand to be read out loud with open throat, shoulders back, and feet ready to dance. Haul your poetry shorts on and get ready for the goose-bumps up and down your legs! Sandra Hunter, author of Losing Touch
About the Author Check out "Ruth Thompson Talks About Her Poetry," a short video made at Hilina Pali -- at youtube.com/watch?v=obJBbK99zkQFor more information about Ruth Thompson, plus poems, classes, upcoming performances and readings, check her website at ruththompson.net or her Facebook page at facebook.com/wailuku.ruth.There are also collaborative poetry/dance performances such as youtube.com/watch?v=7Rw8VakPHig.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Poetic Wisdom on Aging By Story Circle Book Reviews Ruth Thompson's third volume of poetry looks at aging through lenses of nature—drought ravages, fragments of a decayed fish—gently showing the human mind dropping pieces, the human body changing shape. Taking shape often looks like losing shape; we are called here to trust the process of continual renewal, not knowing in the moment what shape is forming.None of us comesto destroy.We cometo take shape.The book's title poem, "Crazing," begins with the image of dry red clay crackling—apt description of aging effects on body, and on mental faculties. Aging is greeted with acceptance and even celebration. Thompson witnesses decline as a stage in transformation, paralleling plant life and human life.Cracked creek-bed red clay crackling—it's called crazing and I am crazingThe poem "White Queen" uses delightful imagery of an older woman showering silver hairpins as she moves through her confusion—choosing to see joy—choosing to see beauty—choosing to see possibilities. This leads to expansion beyond confusion.The poem "Lunar Eclipse" is one of several that on first reading grip with imagery and a sense of relevance, albeit vague; then with subsequent reads, clarity shines through and we nod in recognition—forgiving ourselves over and over, just as the referenced river needs periodic dredging.Thompson uses cultural, literary, and mythology anchors as jumping-off places—Oz, Mary, Mae West, Pythia (Greek priestess). Her poems are a vocabulary feast, full of terms to ponder for personal use. Many lines linger apart from the surrounding poem—haunting, such as: "dancing what she does not know to dance."My recommendation? If you are beyond midlife or love someone who is, Thompson's third volume of poetry is a gift of nurture. Read these poems several times over; between lines compelling within themselves emerges a sense of inevitability we tend to turn away from. This book is a mirror reflecting beauty in aging, changing, becoming other-than-we-were. These thirty-five poems are a bouquet of wisdom.by Jazz Jaeschkefor Story Circle Book Reviewsreviewing books by, for, and about women
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