"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary
experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be
human."--Pulitzer Prize finalist citation
"There is a broad, powerful streak of independence--even
disobedience--that runs through Stone's writing and has inspired a
great number of women after her."--"Guardian"
Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, this retrospective of Ruth
Stone's poetry combines the best work from twelve previous volumes
with an abundance of new poems. This comprehensive selection
includes early formal lyrics, fierce political poems, and
meditations on her husband's suicide and her own blindness. As
Sharon Olds says in her foreword, "A Ruth Stone poem feels alive in
the hands--ardent, independent, restless." "What Love Comes To" is
a necessary collection from an American original.
"Can it be that
memory is useless,
like a torn web
hanging in the wind?
Sometimes it billows
out, a full high gauze--
like a canopy.
But the air passes
through the rents
and it falls again and flaps
shapeless
like the ghost rag that it is--
hanging at the window
of an empty room."
Ruth Stone is the author of twelve books of poetry. Among her
many awards are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award, a Whiting Award, and she
was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. She taught creative
writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton.
She lives in Vermont.
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