RUTH SABATH ROSENHTAL lives in Manhattan and Long Beach, Long Island, New York, with her husband, Alfred. She began writing poetry after retiring from a career as corporate event planner. Prior to that, she was vice-president of a national needlework manufacturing company, where she served as director of licensing, and art director of their “How-To” book department. Ruth became accomplished in writing poetry early on, having been tutored by some fine New York poets, privately, and also in workshops and classes. Ruth’s body of work includes poems published in dozens of literary journals and anthologies throughout the U.S. and Canada, India, Israel, Romania and the U.K. In addition "Facing Home," published by Finishing Line Press, Paragon Poetry Press, Inc., published her other books: "Facing Home and Beyond," "little, but by no means Small" and "Food: Nature vs Nurture"; all these books can be purchased directly from Ruth, via e-mail: ruthspoems(at)aol.com. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************** From the back covers of "Facing Home and Beyond" and "Facing Home" Ruth Sabath Rosenthal’s book "Facing Home and beyond" is bursting with life, teeming with vibrant portraits of grandparent, mother, father, sister, husband, red-clad women — and more. Poems skillfully focus on birth, sex, marriage, aging and death, while others — often done with rich humor — center on food, animals (including parrot and porcupine) dreams, Whitman, Yeats, and more… Here is poetry that throbs with vividly presented human experience. -- Robert K. Johnson, Consulting Editor, Ibbetson Street magazine -- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* In "Facing Home and Beyond," Ruth Sabath Rosenthal reaches back into the past relating important history, while mindful of the significance of the present. Her work covers a multitude of subjects, each given special attention. I hope you will be, as I was, filled and completely satisfied with Ruth’s storm of images. -- Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, Suffolk County Poet Laureate -- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** In Ruth’s poems, life is often a riddle or at least a source of puzzlement and paradox. Ruth’s keen perceptions help us better comprehend ourselves. We come to see life in a different light — enlightenment, that allows us to find and face our own home and go beyond -- David B. Axelrod, Laureate and Fulbright Poet -- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* For Ruth Sabath Rosenthal, "Facing Home" is no sentimental or nostalgic gesture, but rather a tough-minded encounter with the subtle cruelties, the blind-spots, and the betrayals that all who have marked time within families will recognize. Though disappointment and loss are inherent in the terrain, any collection in which the tape of a last phone message is preserved in a “velvet-lined box” speaks to tenderness as a counter-weight to mortality. It’s that ability to balance — on taut lines, juggling a wry (and often pun-loving) wit with moral courage—that makes these poems triumphs of form and candor. -- Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************** In "Facing Home," Ruth Sabath Rosenthal gives us well crafted poems that focus on the family in heightened stages of life. The poems are emotionally charged & complex (“Riding Past the Museum of Natural History & Seeing the Steps”) and witty (“For Want of Red”) and sometimes dark (“Every Sunday”). With such arresting titles as (“I Ate My Mother’s Hair” and “Contemplating Caring for a Porcupine”) Ruth vividly presents the human experience with sensibility and humor. -- Patti Tana -- ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************** With passion and humor, Ruth Sabath Rosenthal dives into the complexities of family life in her shining debut chapbook, "Facing Home." Forthright and fearless, vulnerable and tender, each poem illuminates an emotional moment between human beings. There is both purity of purpose and daring here. Rosenthal’s boldness, insight, and lived earned wisdom embrace her readers with every line. -- Molly Peacock --

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