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Adagio and Lamentation<\/strong><\/em>
\nPoems by\u00a0Naomi Ruth Lowinsky<\/p>\n

Naomi\u2019s words and images meander through shadows and light, between demons and angels, yet the poetry is always accessible.\u00a0 In this moving collection, she often goes back in time, to the days when her family lived in (and escaped from) Hitler\u2019s Europe.\u00a0 The journey helps inform who she is today, including the indelible scar worn by anyone whose family has borne witness to genocide.\u00a0\u2014Stewart Florsheim, author of The Short Fall from Grace<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201c(W)e are all\/each other\u2019s\/raw\/material\u201d writes Naomi Ruth Lowinsky in her wise and moving book Adagio & Lamentation, the \u201cwe\u201d born not only of others but histories and places, all of this inspiring our very human connection over time to vitality and imagination.\u00a0 Lowinsky\u2019s music is poignant and haunting, moving the listeners and readers of her poems with the miracle of arrival that is all new life and the celebration of thriving.\u00a0\u2014Forrest Hammer, author of Call and Response<\/em>, Middle Ear<\/em>, and Rift<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Naomi Lowinsky\u2019s poetry is both fierce and tender, political yet intimate; and, for her, the political is personal. Lowinsky\u2019s poems \u201cvoices from the ashes\u201d\u00a0and \u201cgreat lake of my mother\u201d are particularly moving. Her work is deeply lyrical and transformative.\u00a0 It makes you think and feel.\u00a0 It makes you wish you\u2019d written these poems.\u00a0 Adagio & Lamentation is a stunning and memorable book.\u00a0\u2014Susan Terris, author of Contrariwise, Natural Defenses<\/em>, and Fire is Favorable to the Dreamer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky was the first child born in the New World to a family of German Jewish refugees from the Shoah. Many in her family were lost in the death camps. It has been the subject and the gift of her poetry and prose\u2014to write herself out of the terror, into life.<\/p>\n

Naomi had a special tie with her only surviving grandparent, the painter Emma Hoffman, whom she called \u201cOma.\u201d Oma showed her that making art can be a way to transmute grief, a way to bear the unbearable. The cover of Adagio & Lamentation is a watercolor by Emma Hoffman\u2014an interior view of the Berkeley home where Naomi visited her often as a teenager. Oma tried her best to make a painter of her, but Naomi was no good at it. Poetry was to be her vehicle.<\/p>\n

Adagio & Lamentation<\/i> is Naomi\u2019s offering to her ancestors, a handing back in gratitude and love. It is also her way of bringing them news of their legacy\u2014the cycle of life has survived all they suffered\u2014Naomi has been blessed by many grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky is the author of The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way<\/i> and The Motherline: Every Woman\u2019s Journey to Find Her Female Roots and numerous prose essays, many of which have been published in Psychological Perspectives and The Jung Journal. Her two poetry collections, red clay is talking<\/i> (2000) and crimes of the dreamer<\/i> (2005) were published by Scarlet Tanager Books. She has had poetry published in many literary magazines and anthologies, among them After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery<\/i>, Weber Studies<\/i>, Rattle<\/i>, Atlanta Review<\/i>, Tiferet<\/i> and Asheville Poetry Review<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Naomi has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times and is the recipient of the 2009 Obama Millennium Poetry award for “Madelyn Dunham, Passing On.\u201d Naomi is a Jungian analyst in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, poetry and fiction editor of Psychological Perspectives, and a grandmother many times over.<\/p>\n

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\nPaperback: 112 pages
\nPublisher: il piccolo editions
\n1st edition
\nPublication Date: June 10, 2010
\nLanguage: English
\nISBN-10: 1926715055
\nISBN-13: 978-1926715056<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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