Love Stories: poetry

Norma Beversdorf-Rezits, was hardly a private person. Nevertheless, she chose not to share a lifetime of poems with family and friends. Norma died at age 95, six months after the passing of Joseph Rezits, the love of her life, whom she married when they were both 88 years old. As her daughter, ncountering the more than 700 poems in a box under her bed was electric. The poems are phenomenal -- short, arresting, profoundly deep. She expresses love for herself and for others, and she forgives everyone, including herself. She teaches us how to accept others for who they are and how to find our own inner wisdom. This is the third of four anticipated volumes of her work. In this collection, we feel her love for her mother, her first husband, and her five children. We are also with her as she mourns the loss of a child and later a husband. As much as these poems reflect Norma's actual life, she consistently turns the personal into the universal as she explores the many facets of love, trust, frustration, grief, acceptance, and insight. The deep truths in her poetry reveal a vast world of love, now open to all.