Publisher's Synopsis
"Of My Labor is a complication of poems & illustrations from Ruth book "Facing Home and Beyond" plus 40 additional pages of poems: Vibrant portraits of families, both human & animal, red-clad women, the very nature of man & beast, mother nature. Poems that skillfully focus on birth, sex, wedlock, aging & death, while others, often done with rich humor, center around food, even a quirky parrot, birds of prey, a porcupine, dreams, poems of Whitman, Yeats, Leonard Cohen & others. Here, vividly presented, is poetry throbbing with human experience"--.
