Moon Wheels

Moon Wheels presents poems that are a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. This book includes 33 poems, as well as poems resurrected from the author's sequence "Twelve Sibyls" (1991) and "This Time of Year" (1993). Ruth Fainlight's poems 'give us truly new visions of usual and mysterious events' (A.S. Byatt). Each poem is a balancing act between thought and feeling, revealing otherness within the everyday, often measuring subtle shifts in relationships between women and men. Images of the moon, however interpreted - whether as stern and stony presence or protective maternal symbol - recur throughout Ruth Fainlight's work. "Moon Wheels" includes 33 new poems, as well as poems resurrected from her sequence "Twelve Sibyls" (1991) and from her out-of-print collection "This Time of Year" (1993), and translations of leading modern Latin American poets, including Cesar Vallejo and Sophia de Mello Breyner.