Tipping Point By D.E. Ritterbusch

Tipping Point

By D.E. Ritterbusch

91 pages

ISBN: 978-81-8253-786-6

Cyberwit

Copyright 2021

 

Review by LB Sedlacek

 

D.E. Ritterbusch’s poems are charged with emotion and vast imagery in this new collection.  His poems work together to illustrate his poet’s voice.

 

His poems are ripe with emotion.  They radiate so many different things.  His words are sharp and embracing.

 

From the poem “Wind Shear”

“Someone, in a learned, scientific

journal, played a practical joke,

proposing a rigorous study of traffic

traveling across the continent,

suggesting wind patterns developed

in the continual rush of trucks

and cars from LA to New York and back

which affect the weather, perhaps causing

summer tornadoes in Kansas, high winds

along the shores of Maine.”

 

These verses are striking and unique.  His sharp wordplay is infused throughout the collection. 

 

Ritterbusch is an accomplished poet.  He offers a variety of subjects in his poems with a sensitive touch and vigorous imagery. 

 

From the poem “POETRY”

“. . . The proper subject of poetry is not poetry

 

There are too many squirrel poems, grandfather poems,

mothers with cancer poems, poems

of all sorts perhaps—language poems?

As if language were not there

in any poem, bad or good, mostly bad.”

 

It takes a proper poet to write about poetry itself.  And why not?  It’s such a part of a poet’s life, this art of putting words, spaces and lines of verse together.

 

“Tipping Point” is a familiar reflection amidst a wonderful collection of poetry.  Ritterbusch has given us rich poems that are impactful. 

 

 

~LB Sedlacek is the author of the poetry collections “I’m No ROBOT,” “This Space Available,” “Words and Bones,” “The Blue Eyed Side,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” “Swim,” and “The Poet Next Door.”  Her non-fiction books include “The Poet Protection Plan” and “Electric Melt:  How to Write, Publish, Read Walt Whitman and Survive as a Writer and Poet).  Her short story collection is entitled “Four Thieves of Vinegar & Other Short Stories.”  She writes poetry reviews for  www.thepoetrymarket.com  You can find out more:  www.lbsedlacek.com