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Above the Fold by Scott Ruescher

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“In Above the Fold Scott Ruescher continues his excavation of the American Dream gone dry begun in Waiting for the Light to Change (Prolific Press, 2017). But this collection is not at all bleak. Scott examines the decayed artifacts with precision, humor and compassion, as well as a willingness to recognize the unsheepish among us — northerners, southerners, midwesterners, gringos, paisanos — who now and then manage to situate themselves above the fold.”

–Charles Casey Martin, economic development advisor in Panamá, Perú, Colombia, and El Salvador, and author of the novel Godchildren and of two chapbooks of poetry, Deer Blind and Almost Persuaded.

 

“What a pleasure to see through Scott Ruescher’s eyes—his wildly close attention to details, his moving reverence for ordinary things, and the imprints of family and history he finds as easily in a public monument as in an abandoned shed. With a visual artist’s priorities and an historian’s passion, he takes us through graveyards, gardens, and disasters in New England, Ohio, the South, England, and Latin America—everywhere attending to the magic of the taken for granted.”

–Jessica Hoffmann Davis, EdD, retired Senior Lecturer and Arts in Education Chair, Harvard Graduate School of Education, author of Ordinary Gifted Children and Why Our Schools Need the Arts.

 

 

 

 

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Above the Fold

by Scott Ruescher

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Above the Fold takes the reader along for vicarious experiences of sundry places in the author’s native Central Ohio and his adopted New England, in Appalachia and the Deep South, and in various regions of Latin America and England. Whether peeking over the side of a hairpin turn on a mountain road in Kentucky, encountering a flower vendor on a roadside in Colombia, or looking through the window of a one-room schoolhouse in New Hampshire, these storytelling poems explore not just the visible attributes and histories of places, but the lives of people who have inhabited them, in effect making public landmarks of even the most obscure locations. At the core of these poems is an inquisitive love of adventure, a sympathetic and amused curiosity about places and people, and an urge to use the imagination, in a heightened state of verbal awareness, to salvage experience.

Scott Ruescher is the author of one previous full-length collection of poems—Waiting for the Light to Change (Prolific Press, 2017)—and of two chapbooks, Sidewalk Tectonics and Perfect Memory. In retirement from higher-ed administration and teaching jobs, he writes promotional copy for an affordable-housing nonprofit and works in ESOL and citizenship classrooms in the immigrant communities of Boston.

 

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