A Tenth Anniversary for Raised in the Shadow: The Poetry of Philip Rosenberg

Philip Rosenberg is an old friend. I met him with my husband back in the days of zen and music. We three and more are still alive. Philip, as some know him, is a renaissance man doing all forms of art, music, building, filming and more. I think we will be seeing and hearing more in the days to come. Philip knows the world a bit like I feel I do: all veined-through by metaphor. Indeed, I believe all we can do is speak about the world, unless the poets, the artists, the music makers words take us there, "out beyond the field of thoughts and ideas" as Rumi said.

The poetry of Raised in the Shadow seems especially timely as we all suffer with shadows of the recent and long past. Like all romantics, Phil tries to see un-biasedly but in the end he fails (as we all do) and in that effort touches me deeply.