In the Dark
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When asked whether poets improve with age Ruth Stone, 89, replied: "There's no question. If your brain goes on and on, as it should under normal conditions, there's more in it and your writing will get more profound." Year after year, Ruth Stone's poems turn ever more penetrating. Fresh from her National Book Award, this prophetic new book is filled with winter, fractals, and passionate aging: From "What is a Poem?" Having come this far with a handful...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1556592108
ISBN13:9781556592102
Release Date:September 2004
Publisher:Copper Canyon Press
Length:113 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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Wonderful Stones!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Ruth Stone's poetry has often been seen as melancholic or "dark" ; but her more recent pieces have an edge, a fierceness of diction and imagery that startles the reader. "Living in hell, as I do, the devil lies in my ear. Violent endings, devastation, I am either the shipped out cargo ..." ("The Jewels") etc. Her National Book Award "In the Next Galaxy" carries her voice to greater peaks still. That voice will never grow old... different, yes, but rejuvenated.
compex and biting
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Ruth Stone's poetry is inspiring,yet bitter in it's message on aging and loosing one's sight...
fetching poems by 89 year old blind woman
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
IN THE DARK by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press, PO Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368; www.coppercanyonpress.org; [email protected]. 110+x pp. $22.00 hardcover, ISBN 1-55659-210-8. Ruth Stone is 89, and nearly totally blind. At this age and with this condition, memories make up the substance of her life. For her, memory is virtually a sensation; memory brings her into an intimacy with her surroundings and her past. Feelings and moods are not transient for her. Rather, they are entire universes of different aspects of the world and existence. The "sadness of things/speaks for you." (from "Interim") The flower beds and lawns of a small college--one where Stone likely taught at one time--intone the "quiet authority of culture." (from "Border") The title is somewhat ironic, for Stone illumines her subjects in an almost preternatural way.
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