WHEN THE LILACS LAST BLOOMED I MOURN’D; AND WITH SONGS I PERFUME THE GRAVE OF HIM I LOVE

About the Book

Clara Maslow, now age 91, is author of a memoir, The Tapestry of Our Lives Torn With Fear, of her husband as victim of the McCarthy witch hunt of the early 1950’s, and its traumatic effect on their lives, the lives of their children, and granddaughter. This is her second book, a collection of poems to eulogize, to remember her love of sixty years; A remarkable man, a man unparalleled as a human being. These poems express spiritedly the pain of loss and longing, and the grief of life and love.

A natural poet, a poet of nature. a poet who thinks with her poems her thoughts lie in the language of poetry. She speaks with strong visual images and stark metaphors. The poems express strongly. sensuously the pain of loss, the loneliness of existence and on to the story of love. Poems that often glide into prose with the passion and intensity that drives it in language that is uniformly solemn and tender. Grief plays a large part in this work with poems that speak softly, strongly and tenderly to the lover that has been taken away.

This is a tightly focused collection of poems of yearning, and grief, that penetrate the depth of human gaze, the only place that poetry can enter.

About the Author

Clara Maslow, an octogenarian, age 85, married to Bernard Maslow for 60 years, until his wrongful death (Nov. 2,2000). There are two children, daughter Jane, Professor of Law, and son Jonathan, writer/journalist/ film maker. Clara Maslow, Ed.D. educator, specialist in teaching, college undergraduate and graduates students, in Development of Language-Reading-Writing, ( i.e .Psycholinguistics,) spent 30 years consulting for public schools and for parents and lawyers (in Administrative Hearings), evaluating children with language-reading-writing difficulties—i.e. dyslexia.