Dreaming in Color
Ruth Lepson
"Perception, honesty, delight—it's all there. She combines an ear for pure language with sharp intelligence about people."
—Betsy Sholl
"... a tone, created by her eye, her use of an angle of vision in which 'things tilt,' direction changes, and she as much as we her readers are led on... this sense
of ideas and images are projecting planes... Lepson is very smart... She's at her finest, hardest in her love poems... an interesting sensibility at work here."
—Martha King, Contact II
"There are often unabashedly beautiful tones of words, rhyme, the works."
—Robert Creeley
about the author
Ruth Lepson’s poetry has appeared in Agni, Ploughshares, and many other periodicals. In 2002 the University of Illinois Press published her anthology of poems from the feminist magazine Sojourner. She has read her poetry on NPR's "All Things Considered" and elsewhere, and has organized poetry readings for Oxfam America. She has an online and printed book forthcoming in 2007 at www.blazevox.org of synaesthetic dream prose poems, and photographs by Rusty Crump and herself. She has been collaborating in recent years with other poets, musicians and artists. Her poetry and prose has been published in Jacketmagazine, Agni, Harvard Review, Shampoo and many other periodicals. She is poet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music.
