In the next galaxy / Ruth Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Ruth.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

x, 99 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2002]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Professor Cries 3

Spring Beauties 4

Always Your Shadow 5

Looking at Your Hand 6

Seed 7

In the Next Galaxy 8

Metaphors of the Tree 9

Rising 10

Returning to the City of Your Childhood 11

Leaving My Roommates in New York 12

The Gambler 13

Incarnation 14

This Strangeness in My Life 15

Genesis 16

White on White 17

Shapes 18

Entering the Student's Poem 19

Changes 20

March 15, 1998 22

Visions from My Office Window 23

The Illusion 24

Again

Now 25

The Electric Fan and The Dead Man (or the widow as a useful object toward the end of the century) 26

As It Is 28

Useless Words 29

The Eye within the Eye 30

Always on the Train 31

Bits of Information 32

A Woodchuck Lesson 33

Marbles 35

Parts of Speech 37

Before the Blight 38

Poems 39

What Meets the Eye 40

Junction in the Midwest 41

Breathing 43

On the Slow Train Passing Through 44

Eden, Then and Now 45

Wanting 47

Don't Miss It 48

At the Ready 49

That Other War 50

Tip of the Iceberg 51

Napping on the Greyhound 52

Reading the Russians 53

What We Have 55

A Pair 57

Spring Snow 58

What We Don't Know 59

Linear Illusions 60

When I Was Thirty-five You Took My Photograph 61

Love 62

To Give This a Name, Astonishing 63

Reality 64

At Eighty-three She Lives Alone 65

A Good Question 66

Getting to Know You 67

From Boston to Binghamton 68

Air 69

Sorrow and No Sorrow 70

Points of Vision 71

Train Ride 72

Assumptions 73

The Poem 74

The Interesting Way of Life 75

The Provider 76

Surviving 77

Light 78

Drought 79

Sorrow 80

Albany Bus Station 81

Cousin Francis Speaks Out 82

Messages 83

Grade School 84

Lines 86

On the Mountain 87

Tongues 88

Half Sight in Middlebury 89

Again I Find You 91

The Cabbage 92

Three am 93

To Try Again 94

Not Expecting an Answer 95

Mantra 96.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

1556591780

OCLC:

48544083