In the Next Galaxy

Ruth Stone

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Copper Canyon Press,U.S., 2002

1556591780 / 9781556591785

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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.…

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Título
In the Next Galaxy
Autor
Ruth Stone
Editorial
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Año de publicación
2002
Estado
Good
Encuadernación
Hardback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1556591780
ISBN 13
9781556591785

World of Books (was SecondSale)

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