Lifeline

By: Ruth Panofsky

Poems of everyday life and of family connections, past and present.

PUBLISHED:

2001

PUBLISHER:

Guernica Editions

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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