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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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He Is Walking Wider

He Is Walking Wider

Rittberg, Ellen Pober

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1954353723
ISBN13: 9781954353725
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 3 2021
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
There is something very New York about this fine collection by Ellen Pober Rittberg. There's humor and social witness. But what sticks is the quickness of perception-particularly in the quirky and wise observations the poet draws from the imposing plethora of experience that life in a busy metropolis can be. Koan-like images are massaged out of the cacophony that only a tried and true denizen of New York can execute, one who pays close attention to everything while seeming to not pay any attention. In Subway Poses, for example, Rittberg delivers incisive snapshots gathered with a street-smart aplomb. This imagistic skill-the ability to find character in the smallest perceptual detail-takes on its truest force in her intimate family poems. Poems for father, mother, child, all are imbued an emotional honesty and fullness cannot fail to win the willing reader's heart.

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