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Praise
for crimes of the dreamer,
poems by Naomi Ruth
Lowinsky
I am sure that Naomi Lowinsky goes into what Robert Graves
called poetic trance when she writes, because reading
this book one is overwhelmed by the wild rhythms of original
poetry.
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She
does what she wants: a rare contemporary muse-poet; and what a
relief to our souls! crimes of the dreamer is a jewel
that takes us to an experience only great poetry mediates: the
feeling that everything personal points beyond itself, and everything
numinous belongs to the depths of the human soul.
—Alicia
Torres, Venezuelan poet and writer
author of Fatal and Regarding the Rose
"La
Vida es sueño, y los sueños sueños son"
(Life is a dream and dreams are only dreams), wrote Calderón
in the seventeeth century. For psychoanalytical-learning moderns,
dreams have tended to replace religion as the vehicle of revelation.
Naomi Lowinsky, poet and Jungian analyst, is aware of this fact
on many levels. The anima she connects with in dreams represents
not a lost aspect of the self but the lost (or repressed) potentiality
that exists in every woman. The dance of her poems is a recovery
of that deep anima-energy. Lowinsky's mythic orientation allows
her to move easily among various realms: personal, religious,
historical. "My story is different/than the one men tell"
she insists in an earlier book. Here, the crime is the crime of
birth and history, which the poet not only redeems, but re-dreams.
Again and again the book transports us to what Lowinsky calls
that primal place in which the god-image leaps out of the animal
realm: "word for what is awakened—/and has been for
a thousand generations—/code twisting back to old pelvic
bones—"
—Jack
Foley, critic and poet, author of O Powerful Western Star
Book
Description
Published by Scarlet Tanager Books.
ISBN
0-9670224-8-7, Paper, 82 pages, $16.00
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