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She writes about nature observed in her garden and as far away as Alaska.  She writes about living with ovarian cancer, the disease that took her life in 2001. Ruth opens her life to us through the beauty of her poetry and we are enriched.</div> <bR> <div> Kath Anderson, Ruth's mentor and friend, has selected some of her poems and organized them into sections for this publication. The poems are as Ruth wrote them with the exception of <I>Only Just Arrived at a Brisk Rolling Boil, </I>which Ruth had not finished revising, and the changes here are small. </div> <bR> <div> Kath Anderson's love for Ruth and her professional touch have made possible this wonderful volume.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>                     <I>Richard Lunt  </I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Ruth belonged to that odd category of person known as the “serious” poet. I don't think she ever earned even part of her living by writing-or by teaching writing, as is more often the case, nor was she an oft-published poet.  But she took seriously this occupation, fraught with dabblers, confused by nineteenth century romantic notions of meaning or academic ambition. She wrote with serious attention to her life and to the possibility of threading it through and through with understanding, what Ferlinghetti called “lyric intelligence,” though it was threaded also with many other things: her garden, her family and friends, her cats, the restless set of ideas that flooded daily through conversation, the NY Times or other readings, or travels.  She was ferocious, she took on everything, she tried every new tack, she read ambitiously, she worried, she revised relentlessly-all with fierceness that belied her lovely, small, silver-haired, soft-spoken exterior.  That serious intent is the gift in her poems-that, and invention, grit alongside delicacy, insight, song and delight.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Kath Anderson</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>      At age 54 Ruth Lunt wrote her first poem. Since her retirement in 1992 as a Librarian at Rochester Institute of Technology she has made poetry her central endeavor, mainly through workshops and poet groups connected with <I>Writers & Books, Rochester's Literary Center.</I> She has published in <I>Lake Affect, Desperate Act, City, </I>and <I>Writers and Books Anthology.</I></div> <bR> <div> In her poetry she writes about joys and sorrows within her family and in the world at large. She writes about nature observed in her garden and as far away as Alaska. She writes about living with ovarian cancer, the disease that took her life in 200l. She opens her life to us through the beauty of her poetry and we are enriched. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> AS QUARKS ARE TO CICIDAS</div> <bR> <div> With wrinkled nose distaste, the children</div> <div> bring me the litter of split cicada husks,</div> <div> arms' length delivery on forked leaves.</div> <div> As they flee, I study the perfect bodyshells:</div> <div> legs in delicate articulation -</div> <div> multi-faceted protruding eyes -</div> <div> exterior detail so complete it could be cast</div> <div> from ashen Pompeian bodymolds.</div> <bR> <div> But this is not Reconstruction</div> <div> and this is not Death.</div> <div> With life flown singing into trees,</div> <div> this is Undeath.</div> <div> These surgically clean gashes down each back</div> <div> expose an interior nothingness</div> <div> as amazing as</div> <div> the magnetic tracks of subatomic particles</div> <div> caught on photoplates,</div> <div> faint proofs of the unseeable,</div> <div> this left emptiness</div> <div> our closest sighting of soul's passage.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> AS QUARKS ARE TO CICIDAS</div> <div> is a 72 page hand-sewn book with spine - $15.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Palatino Linotype" >   </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>                           <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="As Quarks are to Cicadas"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-02"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="15.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>     </B></div> <bR> <div>          <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFBF0" FACE="Palatino Linotype" > </FONT></div> <div>          </div> <bR> <div>                            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>