| Description |
xxi, 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
In an Iridescent Time (1959) ; Snow ; The Magnet ; In an Iridescent Time ; Speculation ; The Season ; In the Interstices ; Orchard ; The Splinter-- Topology and Other Poems (1971) ; The Talking Fish ; Being Human, ; Tenacity ; The Excuse ; The Plan ; Poles ; Green Apples ; Habitat ; Fairy Tales ; Advice ; Seat Belt Fastened? ; Metamorphosis ; Wild Asters ; Topography-- Cheap: New Poems and Ballads (1975) ; Bargain ; Codicil ; The Tree ; Habit ; Being A Woman ; The Nose ; Wavering ; The Song of The Absinthe Granny-- Second-Hand Coat: Poems New and Selected (1987) ; Second-Hand Coat ; Where I Came From ; How to Catch Aunt Harriette ; Pokeberries ; Curtains ; Winter ; Names ; American Milk ; How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman ; Comments of the Mild ; Turn Your Eyes Away ; Some Things You'll Need to Know Before You Join the Union ; Translations-- Who Is the Widow's Muse? (1991) ; All Time Is Past Time ; I ; VI ; VIII ; XIII ; XVIII ; XX: The Widow's Song ; XLV ; L ; LII-- Simplicity (1995) ; Look to the Future ; Plumbing ; It Follows ; That Winter ; For Eight Women ; Resonance ; Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry ; Metamorphosis ; The Sperm and the Egg ; Talking to the Dead ; For My Dead Red-Haired Mother ; Simplicity-- Ordinary Words (1999) ; Good Advice ; Words ; 1941 ; How They Got Her to Quiet Down ; So What ; Madison in the Midsixties ; Male Gorillas ; Never ; Absence Proves Nothing ; Relatives ; Then ; Ordinary Words ; When ; Residue ; Schmaltz ; A Moment-- In the Next Galaxy (2002) ; The Professor Cries ; Spring Beauties ; Always Your Shadow ; In the Next Galaxy ; Poems ; Wanting ; What We Have ; Reality ; Sorrow and No Sorrow ; Train Ride ; The Cabbage ; Mantra-- In the Dark (2004) ; Accepting ; Another Feeling ; An Imprint of the Roaring Twenties ; Am I ; And So Forth ; Interim ; What Is a Poem ; My Mother's Phlox ; The Wailing Wall ; Negative ; The Message-- What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems (2008) ; Imprint of the Stereoscopic Cards ; All in Time ; Speaking to My Dead Mother ; The Dog ; Why I Left California ; The Porch ; Fragrance ; The Möbius Strip of Grief ; Weapons ; Poetry ; Bus Station ; Goshen ; One Year I Lived in Earlysville, Virginia. |
| Summary |
"A collection drawn from Ruth Stone's previous books."-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Expertly and sensitively selected by her granddaughter Bianca, The Essential Ruth Stone bears witness to a vivid fifty-year career of one of America's most influential and pioneering poets. Distilling twelve books into a single volume -- from the wild formalism of her early work to the science-filled cosmic intellect of her final collection -- The Essential Ruth Stone shows a visionary poet with a physical grasp on language. Dazzling, humorous, and grief-stricken poems explore the continuity of loss and love, in the spectral appearances of the dead husband, to portraits of an American childhood, life during wartime, and complex metaphysical inquiries into consciousness itself. Ruth Stone's feminism, mysticism, and overall fierceness shine through her wit and passion. Moving gracefully between the loneliness of grief and loss to the fullness of life and love, Stone approaches all her subjects with a profound humanity, an understanding born from her own lived experiences."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Stone, Bianca, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781556596087 (paperback) |
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1556596081 (paperback) |
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