ISBN10: 1556592108, ISBN13: 9781556592102, [publisher: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.] Hardcover Hardcover. An aging poets failing eyesight informs this collection . . . some of which recall the spirit of Russian poet Anna Akhmatova. Dark but not hopeless, they spring from Stones lucid inner vision, which is straightforward, musical, and defiant.UtneNow available in paperback, In the Dark, winner of the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, is Ruth Stones follow-up to her National Book Award--winning In the Next Galaxy. Personal issues of memory, aging, and loss are balanced against profound political and cultural change. Stone has been called a peoples poet whose work is profoundly rewarding, and she writes a poetry of everyday life that recasts the mundane as indispensable. When asked whether poets improve with age, Stone, then eighty-nine, replied: Theres no question.From What is a Poem?:Having come this farwith a handful of alphabet,I am forced,with these few blocks,to invent the universe. Wise and sardonic follow-up to Ruth Stone's National Book Award in Poetry. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
[Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]