Ruth Sabath Rosenthal

Title: Facing Home and Beyond
Publisher: Paragon Poetry Press, Inc.
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-692-01323-6

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6x9 soft cover: 104 pages –70 pages of poems, plus 9 black and white llustration pages and misc. pages such as table of contents, acknowledgments, poet's note, alphabetical index, artist's bio, author's bio. Full color back and front covers.

  from "Facing Home and Beyond" back cover:

Ruth Sabath Rosenthal's poems reach 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

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 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

    Praise for chapbook Facing Home

It's with passion and humor that 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 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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  Table of Contents

I. Blood Relative

13 Catch-Up
14 I Took the Old Photo Down
15 Sundays
16 The Barber
17 We Never Knew She Played Ping-Pong
18 Logan Square East, Philadelphia, PA
19 What to Make of a Diminished Thing
20 On Yet Another Birthday
21 Raus! Raus!
22 Into the Light: Safe Haven, 1944
 
II. Course of Hourglass Sand
 
25 Love’s Lonely Hour
26 On Her Porch
27 Built on an Empty Lot
28 Falling in My Neck of the Woods
29 Coming in Second
30 Grandfather
31 Her Father’s Eyes
32 A Changing Heart
34 I See
 
III. What Food, This?
 
37 Mother’s Wishbones, No Doubt
38 Game Theory
39 Frank, Burger, Chop & Steak
40 New-York-Style Hungarian Stew
41 Awake in Long Beach
42 Bad Apple
44 Home Brew
46 I Ate My Mother’s Hair
47 A Great Stirring
48 The Bird and I

IV. Walls, Doors, and Windows Within
 
51 The House off a Beaten Path
52 Keeping Busy
53 Getting Lost in the Shuffle
54 Dressed in Time
55 Across from Her Mirror
56 A Second Elevator
57 Riding Past the Museum of Natural History
58 Blind Spot

V. Red and Other Colors

61 For Want of Red
62 Slipping into Red
63 Red, White & Blue, and Other Colors
64 Overcome
65 Not Everyone’s Art
66 Past Care
67 My Leaving Machine is Well-Oiled
68 On Divining Sanctuary
69 A Bouquet
70 Stand

VI. Beasts that Burden
 
73 The S.E.C. Nailed the S.O.B.
74 I Remember the Zinnias
75 Contemplating Caring for a Porcupine
76 His Aunt Anna, A-Z
78 This Parrot, Plucked
79 Snake Bite
80 The Sky is Failing
81 Tender an Apology I Say
82 When She Left Her Children

VII. Knit One, Purl Two

85 I Never Saw Anyone Actually
86 Knit One, Purl Two
 
VIII. Her Day-Long Brood
 
89 Ode to Xanax
90 Above My Grassy Bed
91 Stop Calling Me
92 I Visit with People
93 As if Anyone Gives a Whit
94 Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats
95 Old Tune
96 It’s Hard to Tell
97 Her Ever-Boiling Brood
98 Daughter, Tomorrow
99 Note on “Into the Light: Safe Haven, 1944”
100 Alphabetical Index of Poems
102 About the Artist
103 About the Author

Black and White Artwork
 
12 Hook with Anchor (originally in color)
24 Rocking Chair
36 Open Food Box with Eyeglasses
50 House with Many Windows and Tree
60 Paint Brushes in Glass Jar
72 Botero Torsos (originally in color)
84 Hands
88 Wine Jug and Bottle (originally in color)
104 Lantern amid Trees

copyright 2011 by Ruth Sabath Rosenthal. All rights reserved.