Return to Book Page Excerpt Poems" "Blue Himalayan Poppies," "Lombard Street" Table of Contents Backcover quotes: P.K. Page, Don Coles, John Lent Blue Himalayan Poppies By Jay Ruzesky AVAILABLE 0-88971-176-3 Nightwood Editions 5.75 x 8.5 · 112 pages Paperback · $16.95 October 2001 Jay Ruzesky's best poetry of the past seven years. Praise for Painting the Yellow House Blue: "Jay Ruzesky . . . casts a transforming eye on everyday moments [with] a scrupulousness and an attentiveness to human mystery." -Books in Canada "He demonstrates the poet's capabilities of entering imaginatively into the ten thousand strands of being . . . Ruzesky achieves poems of extraordinary vision and tenderness." -Arc