The poet Ruth Rosenthal is a fresh voice for those of us living in the mountains near Yosemite.  Retiring from the Bay Area in California, she brings in her work a most welcome sensitivity, intelligence and beauty.

Her verses resonate and ring true.  She understands the power of simplicity and in her writing there is such a direct focus which reveals how fully she understands that one uses poetic forms in order to go directly to heart and mind and soul.

Ruth Rosenthal loved a man who loved music and was a musician.  Now the music of her poetry has become her tribute to him and to the life they shared.