"The essence of a poem" writes Shirley Russak Wachtel in this
poetry collection spanning over thirty years, "is the middle of
things." This notion is beautifully illustrated as, in a variety of
poetic styles including rhyme, free verse, pantoume, and haiku, she
illumines life's "ordinary" activities. Whether it is contemplating
a red cardinal in her own backyard, emptying the sand from the
pockets of her son's shorts, making a tuna fish sandwich, or
watching the swollen backs of old women receding in the distance,
these lyrical discoveries explore the supreme beauty in life's
smallest, most precious, moments.
PRAISE for IN THE MELLOW LIGHT
"These poems by Shirley Russak Wachtel are crisp as April's morning
air. They are crisp with human detail even as they connect us with
the wide world of nature. Wachtel has a great heart, and she has
the ability to let us see this great heart, her marvelous
perceptions, through her poetry, her art. Praise "
-Emanuel di Pasquale, author of Cartwheel to the Moon (Cricket
Books, 2003), Writing Anew: New and Selected Poems (Bordighera,
2007), winner of the Chelsea Award for Poetry and The
Raiziss/dePalchi Fellowship for translations from the Italian
(sponsored by Academy of American Poets).
"Shirley Russak Wachtel's poetry is grounded in the everyday of
middle-class America, old Little League T-shirts, dogs dreaming of
running through high grass, the slow, steady passage of days in a
suburban neighborhood. What makes her poetry so effective is the
realization of the miraculous hiding within the
commonplace...matched effectively by Wachtel's skillful use of
refrain. Overall, Wachtel's poetry reminds one of a walk along the
beach--it is to be savored for the rhythmic music of the surf as
well as for the beautiful treasures one often discovers deposited
by the tide, waiting to be discovered."
-Mathew V. Spano, PhD, author of over sixty poems, featured in dust
of summers (Red Moon Press, 2007); Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku
Written About the Game (Norton, 2007); and The Poets of New Jersey:
From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Press, 2006).
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