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The current volume offers a retrospective look at Norita Dittberner-Jax's long career as a poet. The themes and images vary, as have the phases of her personal life, though the underlying continuum of family and community connections sustains the flow. Individual poems often strive to establish a co... Read More about World Enough and Time: New and Selected Poems

These are the poems of a woman who has learned that ordinariness is the stuff of most lives and that a poet's difficult task is to illuminate that ordinariness without distorting it."--"Minneapolis Star Tribune" 9 6 1995 Trade Paper 9.95 CUSA 76 Original.... Read More about What They Always Were (Minnesota Voices Project #68)

In this, her sixth collection of poems, Norita Dittberner-Jax writes of coming to grips with her beloved husband's last years with ALS and her own diagnosis of cancer. One dies and one lives. In the aftermath, an unfamiliar landscape of solitude. She addresses her absent spouse in many of the poems,... Read More about Now I Live Among Old Trees: Poems