How Singular and Fine

"How Singular and Fine" is a collection of poems in forms ranging from traditional verse such as Italian and English sonnets, and epic and villanelle, through a wide variety of kinds of syllabic verse-- to the gloss, the imago, chant royal, paradigm, and myriad others.As it should, each poem's form serves its content; the forms are not obtrusive, and the poems glow with bumptious life and joyful experience. Lewis Turco ("The Book of Forms") says of this book, "All I can say is, Ruth Harrison is a wonderful writer who is ever inventive, often as full of song as a skylark, and always interesting." And Jean Milliken ("The Lyric") says the collection takes us into "the sunlight of a clear mind. Here we can be up close and personal with wisdom and beauty--wisdom gleaned from long life, beauty of poetic vision, and skill honed over many years."

Ruth F. Harrison is a retired professor of medieval literature. Her work has won numerous awards and appears in regional, national, and international publications. Lewis Turco's fourth edition of "The Book of Forms" includes some of her poems as examples of unusual forms. And Jean Millikin, "The Lyric," has included one of Ruth's cat poems in a new children's anthology.