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BOOKS BY RUTH DAIGON

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The Moon Inside

The fifth book of poems from award-winning poet Ruth Daigon, The Moon Inside is a work of maturity and strength.

Between One Future and the Next

Daigon sang at Dylan Thomas' funeral and later collaborated with W. H. Auden on a recording of Renaissance poetry and music, but it wasn't until she started editing Poets On that she transformed herself from concert soprano to full-time poet-editor. If she still sings as well as she writes, the musical world must be saddened to have lost such a strong voice. In her fourth collection, traces of her musical background surface frequently, bringing rhythm, melody, and resonance to every poem. Her subjects are usually domestic: married women facing "a procession of cardboard moments" and watching time "drip like coffee in the percolator"; relatives standing side by side in photographs that are "slightly out of focus"; and in the sunlight, whole families wrapped "in a gauze of sleep." Without sentimentality or, conversely, bitterness, Daigon presents the family and its machinations without missing a note.