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This book is a collection of four separate volumes of poetry written by Pulitzer Prize- nominee, Eugene Ruggles. A California "deep image" poet born in Michigan, he is widely admired. Sonoma County Poet Laureate, Mike Tuggle describes him as a poet "gifted with language and a vision," who believed in poetry as a "testament and a witness to truth, love and justice;" Muriel Ruckeyser, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Sharon Dubiago are quoted on the cover. Only one of these volumes (The Lifeguard in the Snow, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977) was previously published; the rest were discovered at his death.
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This moving collection of poems includes work from the late Ruggles's various collections (The Lifeguard in the Snow; Spending the Sun; Enough) as well as a handful of unpublished and stirring love poems. Ruggles's oeuvre is shaped by his deeply felt, evolving experience, with poems ranging from the explosive "Eros" of the late 1960s to the more recent "Inscription for the Door," in which he acknowledges no enemies, only "some friends who are late." Ruggles was a poet of the people, and his early work set in the Michigan farmland of his youth reflects a deep pathos. In "An Old Man on the Bum Sitting in an All-Night Detroit Diner," he writes, "He lets the counter drift higher/ around his shoulders,/ and then raises with care/ completely with both hands/ the white warm cup/ like a breast and drinks." Impressions meld into epiphanies concerning war, the masses ("Who will speak/ for the simple and dumb/ with their voices/ in shoes and gloves/ all their lives/ hanging onto their homes"), and small, lovely moments between men and women. Ruggles possesses a compelling social vision and workingman's sensibility.
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