The essential Ruth Stone / edited by Bianca Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Ruth, author.

Contributor:

Stone, Bianca, editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

In an Iridescent Time (1959)

Snow p. 5

The Magnet p. 6

In an Iridescent Time p. 7

Speculation p. 8

The Season p. 9

In the Interstices p. 10

Orchard p. 11

The Splinter p. 12

Topography and Other Poems (l971)

The Talking Fish p. 15

Being Human, p. 16

Tenacity p. 17

The Excuse p. 18

The Plan p. 19

Poles p. 20

Green Apples p. 21

Habitat p. 22

Fairy Tales p. 24

Advice p. 25

Seat Belt Fastened? p. 26

Metamorphosis p. 27

Wild Asters p. 28

Topography p. 29

Cheap: New Poems and Ballads (1975)

Bargain p. 33

Codicil p. 34

The Tree p. 35

Habit p. 37

Being a Woman p. 38

The Nose p. 39

Wavering p. 40

The Song of the Absinthe Granny p. 41

Second-Hand Coat: Poems New and Selected (1987)

Second-Hand Coat p. 47

Where I Came From p. 48

How to Catch Aunt Harriette p. 49

Pokeberries p. 50

Curtains p. 51

American Milk p. 54

How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman p. 55

Comments of the Mild p. 56

Turn Your Eyes Away p. 57

Some Things You'll Need to Know Before You Join the Union p. 58

Who Is the Widow's Muse? (1991)

All Time Is Past Time p. 67

I p. 68

VI p. 69

VIII p. 70

XIII p. 71

XVIII p. 72

XX: The Widow's Song p. 73

XLV p. 74

L p. 75

LII p. 76

Simplicity (1995)

Look to the Future p. 79

Plumbing p. 80

It Follows p. 81

That Winter p. 83

For Eight Women p. 86

Resonance p. 88

Things I Say to Myself While Hanging Laundry p. 89

Metamorphosis p. 90

The Sperm and the Egg p. 91

Talking to the Dead p. 92

For My Dead Red-Haired Mother p. 93

Simplicity p. 94

Ordinary Words (1999)

Good Advice p. 97

Words p. 98

1941 p. 99

How They Got Her to Quiet Down p. 100

Madison in the Midsixties p. 102

Male Gorillas p. 103

Never p. 104

Absence Proves Nothing p. 105

Relatives p. 106

Then p. 107

Ordinary Words p. 108

When p. 109

Residue p. 110

Schmaltz p. 111

A Moment p. 112

In the Next Galaxy (2002)

The Professor Cries p. 115

Spring Beauties p. 116

Always Your Shadow p. 117

In the Next Galaxy p. 118

Wanting p. 120

What We Have p. 121

Reality p. 123

Sorrow and No Sorrow p. 124

Train Ride p. 125

The Cabbage p. 126

Mantra p. 127

In the Dark (2004)

Accepting p. 131

Another Feeling p. 132

An Imprint of the Roaring Twenties p. 133

Am I p. 135

And So Forth p. 137

Interim p. 138

What Is a Poem? p. 139

My Mother's Phlox p. 140

The Wailing Wall p. 142

Negative p. 143

The Message p. 144

What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems (2008)

Imprint of the Stereoscopic Cards p. 147

All in Time p. 148

Speaking to My Dead Mother p. 153

The Dog p. 154

Why I Left California p. 155

The Porch p. 160

Fragrance p. 161

The Möbius Strip of Grief p. 163

Weapons p. 164

Poetry p. 166

Bus Station p. 167

Goshen p. 168

One Year I Lived in Earlysville, Virginia p. 169.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781619322295

1619322293

Publisher Number:

40030107807

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