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Stone, Ruth.

In the next galaxy / Ruth Stone.

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2002.

x, 99 pages ; 24 cm

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.

Poetry.

Poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

National Book Award, Poetry, 2002

The Professor Cries -- Spring Beauties -- Always Your Shadow -- Looking at Your Hand -- Seed -- In the Next Galaxy -- Metaphors of the Tree -- Rising -- Returning to the City of Your Childhood -- Leaving My Roommates in New York -- The Gambler -- Incarnation -- This Strangeness in My Life -- Genesis -- White on White -- Shapes -- Entering the Student's Poem -- Changes -- March 15, 1998 -- Visions from My Office Window -- The Illusion -- Again--Now -- The Electric Fan and The Dead Man (or the widow as a useful object toward the end of the century) -- As It Is -- Useless Words -- The Eye within the Eye -- Always on the Train -- Bits of Information -- A Woodchuck Lesson -- Marbles -- Parts of Speech -- Before the Blight -- Poems -- What Meets the Eye -- Junction in the Midwest -- Breathing -- On the Slow Train Passing Through -- Eden, Then and Now -- Wanting -- Don't Miss It -- At the Ready -- That Other War -- Tip of the Iceberg -- Napping on the Greyhound -- Reading the Russians -- What We Have -- A Pair -- Spring Snow -- What We Don't Know -- Linear Illusions -- When I Was Thirty-five You Took My Photograph -- Love -- To Give This a Name, Astonishing -- Reality -- At Eighty-three She Lives Alone -- A Good Question -- Getting to Know You -- From Boston to Binghamton -- Air -- Sorrow and No Sorrow -- Points of Vision -- Train Ride -- Assumptions -- The Poem -- The Interesting Way of Life -- The Provider -- Surviving -- Light -- Drought -- Sorrow -- Albany Bus Station -- Cousin Francis Speaks Out.

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