What Love Comes to - by Ruth Stone (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. "Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet." --<i>Harvard Review</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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</p><p>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.--<i>Guardian</i></p><p>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. <i>What Love Comes To</i> is a necessary collection from an American original.</p><p><i>Can it be that<br>memory is useless, <br>like a torn web<br>hanging in the wind?<br>Sometimes it billows<br>out, a full high gauze-- <p/>like a canopy.<br>But the air passes<br>through the rents<br>and it falls again and flaps<br>shapeless<br>like the ghost rag that it is--<br>hanging at the window<br>of an empty room.</i></p><p><b>Ruth Stone</b> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Sharon Olds: Sharon Olds, author of ten books of poems, is the founding director of New York University's workshop program at Goldwater Hospital, New York. <p/>
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