Lifeline
By: Ruth Panofsky
Poems of everyday life and of family connections, past and present.
PUBLISHED:
2001
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AWARDS:
Writer's Reserve Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Reviews
I was struck by the directness of Panofsky’s poems, their unobtrusive craft and openness. They welcome the reader into a world that is deeply felt and finely imagined. “Mourning a Father,” a sequence in which Panofsky works her way through grief toward a legacy of affection, is especially moving.
Kenneth Sherman, author of The Well: New and Selected Poems
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