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This Being
Winner of the 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
In this, her debut collection, Ingrid Ruthig records the ebb and flow of individual life through time, landscape, and our collective existence. How we connect with the past, where we are now, and despite our inherent separateness, our personal convergences – these are what lay ahead on this journey. Ruthig also explores our need to create, to build a deeper sense of self, of belonging: questioning, observing, then striving to respond. Her voice is confident, concentrated, wry. This is a book of poems about the dynamic of being, and our shifting perception of who we are from one moment to the next.
“[Ruthig’s] architectural training and practice may coincide with the clarity, concision and visual richness of her poems, but the poems are also invested with metaphysical and emotional ambiguities. She has a baroque sense of fluidity, transience and riddling premonition. She is fascinated by the askew, the slant, the unknown country which is a continuously receding destination. Ruthig’s is a poetry of very high ability and intelligence.” — Peter Sanger, author of Aiken Drum and poetry editor of The Antigonish Review
“Accomplished in both energetic and elegiac tonalities, Ruthig’s melodious lines and enjambments offer visually rich detail and faith in living, despite the ‘headstrong, outbound current.’ While they recuperate and celebrate nature and attachments, these poems manage a philosophical eye that is a rare delight in a début collection.” — Nyla Matuk, author of Sumptuary Laws
In this, her debut collection, Ingrid Ruthig records the ebb and flow of individual life through time, landscape, and our collective existence. How we connect with the past, where we are now, and despite our inherent separateness, our personal convergences – these are what lay ahead on this journey. Ruthig also explores our need to create, to build a deeper sense of self, of belonging: questioning, observing, then striving to respond. Her voice is confident, concentrated, wry. This is a book of poems about the dynamic of being, and our shifting perception of who we are from one moment to the next.
“[Ruthig’s] architectural training and practice may coincide with the clarity, concision and visual richness of her poems, but the poems are also invested with metaphysical and emotional ambiguities. She has a baroque sense of fluidity, transience and riddling premonition. She is fascinated by the askew, the slant, the unknown country which is a continuously receding destination. Ruthig’s is a poetry of very high ability and intelligence.” — Peter Sanger, author of Aiken Drum and poetry editor of The Antigonish Review
“Accomplished in both energetic and elegiac tonalities, Ruthig’s melodious lines and enjambments offer visually rich detail and faith in living, despite the ‘headstrong, outbound current.’ While they recuperate and celebrate nature and attachments, these poems manage a philosophical eye that is a rare delight in a début collection.” — Nyla Matuk, author of Sumptuary Laws
- GenresPoetry
88 pages, Paperback
Published March 28, 2016
About the author
Ingrid Ruthig
8 books6 followersIngrid Ruthig is the author of
This Being
(Fitzhenry & Whiteside), winner of the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. The recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship and a Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, she is also author of the artist's book Slipstream, the chapbook Synesthete II, and editor of several volumes including
The Essential Elizabeth Brewster
(Porcupine's Quill) and
David Helwig: Essays on His Works
(Guernica Editions). A new book of her poetry is forthcoming from Véhicule Press.
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