Ripenings

Part American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's Ripenings is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, friends, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. "Revelation begins in attention," the author writes, and whether that attention manifests here in paeans to New York, to life in Northern California's landscape, or to the people who have accompanied her through her life, love is what shines through in these poems, these ripenings—this book a gift of love laid at our feet.