Things I am Keeping

By: Frederica Steinberg

In “Things I Am Keeping,” Frederica Steinberg revisits the various stages of her sixty-year marriage to her husband Arthur Steinberg. Beginning with their early days and marriage in Rome, to their homes in Cambridge and Vermont, Steinberg gives us insightful poems about everything from long-ago meals in a Roman trattoria and hiking in the Swiss Alps to the ordinary but poignant events in everyday family life. Arthur’s diagnosis and eventual passing from Alzheimer's disease and her struggles adjusting to life alone produces more somber and wrenching poems as a coda to the joyful decades that she and Arthur previously shared.

Rich with emotion and vivid imagery, “Things I Am Keeping” is a loving tribute to not only her husband and their relationship, but an era of optimism and great social change, when, as she says, “Everything was possible.”

Product Details

• Paperback: 74 pages

• ISBN-13: 978-1-94-157398-3

• Book Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches