Jennifer “Jinks” Hoffmann

To All the Mirrored Doors of Beginning, a Journey Ending

Arts & Literature

“In her ninety-sixth year, ‘a disappearing inkblot being born’ Ruth Rifka trysts passionately with God, the ‘receiver of prayers,’ who allows evil. Written largely in response to war, hostage-taking, life’s darkness, Ruth yet exhorts us to ‘live life,’ for ‘all we get is now.’ This extraordinary, moving collection of psalm-like poems includes parting blessings as a coda to ‘the terrible, the wonderful, and the holy’ to ‘God there, in all the greenness.’”