What love comes to : new & selected poems / Ruth Stone ; foreword by Sharon Olds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Ruth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--Women authors.

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. ?Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet." ?Harvard Review

Contents:

Note to the Reader; Title Page; Contents; Ruth Stone and Her Poems; NEW POEMS; What Love Comes To (2008); Tendrils; The Alien; The Old Story; Imprint of the Stereoscopic Cards; Setting Type; The Real Travelers; Work; From Where We Are; What It Comes To; Memory; All in Time; But You're Only Sleeping on the Bus; For the Dead; Eta Carinae; Strings; Immolation; Speaking to My Dead Mother; The Basic Question; Gone; Monetary Problems; The Follies of My Youth; The Dorm; Sin; A Leap in Memory; The Dog; Why I Left California; The Porch; Tsunami; Fragrance; A Short History of My Brother; The Bungalow

Song of the MouseAcrostic; The Möbius Strip of Grief; Where I Am; Weapons; Poetry; Bus Station; This; From the Porch; What to Do; Progression; Kansas as Africa; Wind Chimes; Eve, Also; The Fig Tree; How It Is; The Dilemma; Even Now; No Doubt; The Long Chill; Goshen; Marcia; Where Is Everybody?; Old Cars; Arizona; Straight from the Mouth of the Head Honcho, and I Quote; Certainly Not; Yes, What?; One Year I Lived in Earlysville, Virginia; Lighter Than Air; Barren; For Abigail on Her Birthday; Changes; Changes; Flowers; Language; Progression II; Connections; from In an Iridescent Time (1959)

MemoirThe Magnet; In an Iridescent Time; The Season; In the Interstices; The Burned Bridge; The Awakening; Orchard; Home Movie; The Mold; Swans; Love's Relative; Vernal Equinox; from Topography and Other Poems (1971); Dream of Light in the Shade; The Talking Fish; Being Human,; Tenacity; The Excuse; The Sun with Mr. Parker's Help; The Plan; Poles; Green Apples; Shades of Red; A Fowl Life; Birds; Breakfast in Paris with Nasturtiums; Fairy Tales; Behind the Façade; Coda; I Have Three Daughters; A Mother Looks at Her Child; Changing; Tension; Advice; Healing; Seat Belt Fastened?; Fifteen; Hunger

MetamorphosisWild Asters; Topography; from Cheap: New Poems and Ballads 1975; Bargain; Cheap; Sabbatical Love; Codicil; Loss; The Tree; Vegetables I; Vegetables II; Periphery; Separate; As Now; Path; Communion; Being a Woman; Cocks and Mares; The Nose; from Second-Hand Coat: Poems New and Selected 1987; Second-Hand Coat; Where I Came From; Poetry; How to Catch Aunt Harriette; What Can You Do?; Drought in the Lower Fields; Pokeberries; Liebeslied; Curtains; Winter; Shadows; You May Ask; Names; Why Kid Yourself; Message from Your Toes; The Room; American Milk

How Aunt Maud Took to Being a WomanComments of the Mild; When the Furnace Goes On in a California Tract House; Surviving in Earlysville with a Broken Window; Happiness; Turn Your Eyes Away; Some Things You'll Need to Know Before You Jointhe Union; Women Laughing; Translations; fromWho Is the Widow's Muse?1991; All Time Is Past Time; I; II; X; XIII; XVI; XVIII; XIX; XX; XXI; XXIX; XXXIV; XXXVII; XLII; XLIII; XLIV; XLV; L; LI; LII; from Simplicity 1995; Against Loss; Ripple Effect; Plumbing; That Winter; Resonance; The Wound; The News; That Day; Things I Say to Myself while Hanging Laundry

Nuns at Lunch on the Bus

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61932-077-0

OCLC:

824118094