Speaking Parts

"Remarkable actress and dazzling poet Beth Ruscio knows both the many masks we wear and those singular performances we each live to give. In SPEAKING PARTS, her powerful and deeply moving new collection of poems, we become the audience to the self and its many faces, some public and some familial, some romantic, yet some hidden until, at last, they are suddenly revealed. The elegant enactments and lyrical mediations of Speaking Parts remind us that to speak for others also allows us to spea...