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This title in other editionsIn the Next Galaxyby Ruth Stone
AwardsWinner of the 2002 National Book Award for Poetry
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:At eighty-six, National Book Critics Circle Award winnder Ruth Stone is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she continues her long practice of piercing directly to life's poetic truth. She writes with a crackling intelligence, interrogating history from the vantage point of an aging and impoverished woman. Wise, sardonic, crafty, and misleadingly simple, Stone loves heavy themes but not heavy poems. Review:"As Ruth Stone grows older, her poems turn devastating without abandoning the absolute resolution she learned back in the 1950's." Harvard Review Review:"Ruth Stone's work is alternately witty, bawdy, touching, and profound....Her honesty and originality give her writing a sense of youth and newness because she looks at the world so clearly....Her writing proves to be simply inspired." USA Today Review:"A Ruth Stone poem feels alive in the hands — ardent, independent, restless....She sometimes has the sound of a prophet." Sharon Olds Review:"Ruth Stone began late, achieving her most powerful works with maturity and continuing their scope and span into age where most poets fall into silence or repetition." Drunken Boat Synopsis:Exquisite new work from winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Synopsis:Poetry. Ruth Stone has rightly been called America's Akhmatova, and she is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she writes with crackling intelligence, interrogating history from the vantage point of an aging and impoverished woman. Wise, sardonic, crafty, and misleadingly simple, Stone loves heavy themes but loathes heavy poems. "Ruth Stone's work is alternatively witty, bawdy, touching, and profound. But never pompous. Her honesty and originality give her writing a sense of youth and newness because she looks at the world so clearly, without all the detritus of social convention the rest of us pick up along the way . . . Her writing proves her to be simply inspired"-USA Today. Synopsis:Ruth Stone has rightly been called America’s Akhmatova, and she is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. In this, her eighth volume, she writes with crackling intelligence, interrogating history from the vantage point of an aging and impoverished woman. Wise, sardonic, crafty, and misleadingly simple, Stone loves heavy themes but loathes heavy poems. Shapes In the longer view it doesn’t matter. However, it’s that having lived, it matters. So that every death breaks you apart. You find yourself weeping at the door of your own kitchen, overwhelmed by loss. And you find yourself weeping as you pass the homeless person head in hands resigned on a cement step, the wire basket on wheels right there. Like stopped film, or a line of Vallejo, or a sketch of the mechanics of a wing by Leonardo. All pauses in space, a violent compression of meaning in an instant within the meaningless. Even staring into the dim shapes at the farthest edge; accepting that blur. "Ruth Stone’s work is alternately witty, bawdy, touching, and profound. But never pompous. Her honesty and originality give her writing a sense of youth and newness because she looks at the world so clearly, without all the detritus of social convention the rest of us pick up along the way… Her writing proves her to be simply inspired."—USA Today Ruth Stone was born in Virginia in 1915. She is author of eight books of poems and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1959, after her husband committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone. For twenty years she traveled the US, teaching creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. She lives in Vermont. About the AuthorRuth Stone was born in Virginia in 1915. She is author of eight books of poems and recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1959, after her husband committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone. For twenty years she traveled the US, teaching creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Birghamton. She lives in Vermont. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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