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Stars in a Black Sky - A Review

by Riva Rubin Category: Literature Issue No. 145

Back from Beyond, Katherine Rubin, Pen Press; UK, 2008

Reviewed by Riva Rubin

The elation and the melancholy of these hundred poems are equally true.

Juxtaposed in the hundred poems of Katherine Rubin’s collection, the two poles of the writer’s individual, enhanced sensitivity create a sharpened presentation of familiar, universal states of being.

The writer describes her poems as ‘… verses of a girl…’ [p.41] which is true of the technical naivety of most of them. However, the sharing of grief, love, exhilaration, despair, delight and hope Stars in a Black Sky

that they contain is mature, direct and unpretentious.

‘You show me my life / as it could be/ in another reality. / Hope glimmers. [p118]

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Riva Rubin “In Rubin’s poetry, the Israeli landscape serves as a metonymy for emotional and philosophical states of mind. Her English is in constant dialogue with Hebrew so that her wri...
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