"Ruth L. Schwartz has reached a level of poetic maturity that we’re used to seeing only in the best of our American poetry… reaching after and trying to understand the natural world and her place therein, and modulating her poems with a subtle, ghostly music which has the capacity to lull us into understanding more about ourselves and about the wonderful ambiguities of living life most fully." —Bruce Weigl 

"Ruth L. Schwartz will settle for nothing less than the essential. Her passionate poems are alive to the vulnerability of the body, the daily possibility of joy, and the deep struggle not only to make sense of, but to affirm the world." —Mark Doty 

"Ruth L. Schwartz’s poems are passionate and compassionate engagements with the sensuous richness that is this living world. Her empathy reaches broadly into every terrain and being, enlarging our understanding of the body’s hunger not for continuance only, but for connection. There is not a poem in this book that could not be called a love poem." —Jane Hirshfield

Ruth L. Schwartz’s Dear Good Naked Morning was the winner of the 2004 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Her three previous books of poems are Edgewater (Harper Collins, 2002), selected by Jane Hirshfield as a 2001 National Poetry Series winner; Singular Bodies (Anhinga 2001), winner of the 2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry; and Accordion Breathing and Dancing (University of Pittsburgh Press 1996), chosen by William Matthews for the 1994 Associated Writing Program Competition. She currently lives in Oakland, California, where she has a private practice in Depth Hypnosis and Shamanic Counseling.