Publisher's Synopsis
This Horizon and Beyond is the new collection from the internationally recognized poet praised for her ability to see things as they are, strip them to their essentials, and reinvent them. Nancy-Gay Rotstein's poetry has been hailed for its powerful imagery, perceptive insights, and universal attraction. This Horizon and Beyond comprises landmark selections from her three previous books as well as poems appearing in print for the first time. Arranged into sections titled Sightings; Compass Points: Eastward, The Equinox, Borders; and The Cycle, this volume provides a probing look, in verse, at 'this horizon and beyond.' Included are poems from Rotstein's travels through China as one of the first Westerners to enter that country after the Cultural Revolution; stirringly real poetic snap-shots of her travels in Greece, Italy, Japan, and Israel; and an emotionally charged cycle of poems that, written over a 20-year period and purposely held for publication as a unit, capture the changing stages in a family's life.;Throughout are colourful and insightful poem-portraits of people and incisive portrayals of historical events - among them selections that contemplate Israel and the Holocaust. Everywhere, Rotstein's work is suffused with the overwhelming idea that we are living in history and her masterful ability to crystallize what she sees into brilliant and resonant poetry.
