What We Take with Us - by Susan Dworski Nusbaum (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Through the prisms of love and loss, memory, individual narratives, and the natural world, this collection of poems celebrates the bounty of life.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Through the prisms of love and loss, memory, individual narratives, and the natural world, this collection of poems celebrates the bounty of life-ordinary human experience as an act of discovery. Our daily encounters with the world, universal and particular, are what breathe life into us-what we take with us and ultimately leave behind. The poems examine the common landmarks of our lives, "the careful threads that hold us together," joy and suffering, passions and disappointments, the search for identity, complexities of nature, growth and decline, the paradoxes of reality. Meaningful gifts abound in the small and often astonishing details which serve to define the human condition.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Nusbaum maps our way home, always unflinchingly aware of those problems never solved... And yet she never forgets the grace of our "glittering strand of flame-bright days," our time spent contemplating the ordinary and extraordinary... These are wonderful poems that demonstrate a love of craft, especially in their command of syntax and the free verse line, and quietly declare a deeply lived, highly self-aware life. Over and over, the poems draw us into the mystery of blessing and destruction that the paradoxically sufficient and insufficient world offers."<br>--Robert Cording, Walking with Ruskin <p/>"What we take with us, in turns out, is orchestral in its multi-vocal tones and tropes. Nusbaum's voice, in the tradition of Alicia Ostriker and Marge Piercy, is expansive and skillful, preserving her sacred people and places, yet compassionate in its empathic reach into often-ignored others. A voice this large is rare indeed. But what I take most with me in my reading of this extraordinary collection is the way in which it embodies a life that is wholly mature and completely realized or, in the posture of her grandson Matthew's fourth grade photo: 'ready to take it all on.' "<br>--Philip Terman, The Torah Garden<br>
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