Dreaming in Color

by 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

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

Reviews

[ky · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 makes u wanna go through a divorce

"i am your bread:
i have soaked in too much salt.
u have nothing to ask me for,
and we drive home,
colored by another sunset."

"one of these days is broken
by a sentence from a woman
i usually like to see."

"we would hold on to one another if we could."

"(good morning)
there was no answer.
i stopped looking.
my life was calm."

"i can't condemn u
because i chose u"

"short time to daydream
what i imagine i was"

"how surprising that i should welcome night, and quiet"

[Rebecca Valley · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5. Some beautiful and surprising images, but the poems didn’t feel as imaginative at times and I wish they had all been equally strong. Loved the poems about winter.

[Aravind Jayan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely