Allan Briesmaster

To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending

Arts & Literature

“Timeless, while also contemporary and immediate, Ruth Rifka’s eloquent poems, written from the perspective of a nonagenarian with ‘one foot in God’s waiting room,’ are bound to engage and charm and move readers of all ages. Through an admirably wide range of moods and modes, they are speculative, inquiring, prophetic, prayerful, anxiously troubled and concerned, and spiritually luminous. Each finely written, richly imagined poem is not unlike ‘a toasted perfect marshmallow tossed / from God’s holy bonfire.’”