Crazing

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.”

"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/