Loving Is Listening to the Fine Beating of Wings

This collection of poems by Lois Silverstein offers us a vast range of
feeling in poems for every taste: from the fi ne haiku-like precision of imagery
and chiseled use of words and language to their condensations of allusions
and a wide gamut of feeling; from their celebration of childhood wonder
to the intimacy of love, its ritual bonds and mystical eroticism; from their
intense longing for joy, with its concomitant melancholy and realism to
their eloquent tribute to death, with choking feelings of grief. LOVING IS
LISTENING TO THE FINE BEATING OF WINGS is a book of poems
that matter. Please read them.
-Abdul Jabbar, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, City College of SF,
English and Interdisciplinary Studies





These poems sparkle. The objects and actions of daily life, the relationships
within the family are presented as already refracted - their light is clear and
at the same time changes direction - discovers new facets or new depths of
a scene or an experience - nothing is simple here, least of all the way simple
words redirect the reader to resee the ordinary.
In fact, these are wonderful poems. I am full of admiration for them. I
love reading them. Lois Silverstein as caught those fl itting passing moments
of our lives -- the watching of a child in some discovery, the watching of a cat,
a tree, a love and a deep loss. These are not poems just personal to the poet
but to us. They speak of our own discoveries, sometimes horrible, its true,
but they disclose some of the dimensions of our dearest reality.
Ellen Spolsky, Ph.D., Professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel