Gifts Bestowed: poetry by

Norma Beversdorf-Rezits kept a lifetime of hidden poetry under her bed. Only one daughter even knew she wrote. When asked "Did you keep your poems?" NBR answered "Oh, Yes." "Where?" "Under my bed" "Can I see them?'"When I'm dead."NBR died at age 95 in May 2020. This is the second small volume of exquisite poetry curated from about 700 neatly typed poems in her collection. NBR expressed complex and profound thoughts in just a few simple words, with an artistry that frames her thinking with delicacy and grace. She addressed universal questions: good and evil, life and death, love, conflict, spiritual understanding. Her work has been compared to Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickenson but her poems are distinctly fresh and original. There is wit, depth, self-understanding, acceptance, and hope in this small book.