Published by Lake Shore Publishing
Perfect Bound, 93 pages
5½ by 8½ inches 2003
ISBN# 0-941363-09-0
$8.95
Praise for A Beating of Wings
A Beating of Wings is one of those delightful volumes of poetry that give the reader the opportunity of meeting a lovely human being. “Let the soul dance,” writes Gertrude Rubin. My soul indeed danced with hers so many times. “Soul” is the key word here – the part that lasts. “When I die, place a cutting of me in a glass of clear water.” No need. These poems are her soul sprouting already.
Allan Bates – English Department, Northeastern Illinois University
Gertrude Rubin’s Poems rise from the occasions of her life, from her acute perceivings, with apparent effortlessness, so unobtrusively convincing and natural is her imagination, so developed are her artistic skills. She is an observer of the mundane, the near-at-hand, the ordinary lives and deaths of people, animals, trees and flowers around her – in short, the range of experiences we all know but seldom penetrate imaginatively. Gertrude Rubin has, over the years, built up a body of work that contains the kind of “new” William Carlos Williams said we famish for the lack of.
Professor Ralph J. Mills Jr., English Department, University of Illinois Chicago
As a writer of narrative poems that are poignant and life-affirming Gertrude Rubin ranks with the best of modern poets.
Rebecca Moskowitz – Writer
Sensitive to life’s rhymes, to the natural world and the curious realm of human feelings and connections, these poems face life and death with wide open eyes. Never flinching, they show what is and push beyond the surface to strength and grace.
Jill Baumgaertner – Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College
About The Gertrude Rubin
Gertrude Rubin’s poetry springs from her Chicago Roots. She studied at Northeastern Illinois University on the Northwest side of Chicago. She received an MFA degree from the Writers Program at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 1978. She was active in the Poets Club of Chicago and Poets and Patrons, a poetry organization in Chicago.
Her work has been published in numerous anthologies. She won Grand Prize in the Indiana State Poetry Contest in 1986.
She is also the author of The Passover Poems, published in 1991.
Contents
Vivaldi’s Seasons
A.M. Scenario
Escape Artist
Casualty List
Night Of The Druids
Late-Bloomer
Home Free
Insight
End Of Season
Encore Performance
Weather Forecast
The Night Of Twenty-Six Below
The Ambiguous Snowbank
Bloodsap Rising
Spring Bacchanale
To The Moon
Last Year’s Sandbar
Door County Thief
Song Of The Seventh Decade
Advice To A Novice Gardener
Taken From Life
Break-In
To Karl Wallenda
Swee-Touch-Nee Tea
Mother-In-Law
Morning Excursion
When It Rains, It Rains
Passover For The Residents
Soldiers Not Found on Battlefields
Of Buggies And Wheelchairs
Verse Games
Grandma’s Jet Planes
Winter, 1989
Shiva
Non-Intervention
A Grave Nourishment
Unexpected Caller
A Beating Of Wings
Speaking To God At Starved Rock
Conspiracy
Emigre
Memories Of Vietnam
Slaughterhouse Goat
The Killing Floor
Lapse
Medical Poem
Driver’s Test
Trio
Dancing In The Dark
Driving West Of The Lake
The Exiles
Long Distance
A Poem In Five Acts At Stratford
Souvenir
Little Theater On Howard Street
High Holiday Service
Revising History
Sciatica
Reflections
Survivor
To Whitey, Loving Cat
Operating Procedure
Jeu D’Oeil
The Mermaid’s Version
Metra Station
Commuter Companion
Grant Park Remembered
Flying Home On A DC-7 90
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