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Ruth Stone was born in Virginia in 1915. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and received the National Book Award in 2002 for In the Next Galaxy. Her other awards and honors include a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award, and two Guggenheim fellowships. She lives in Vermont.
At 89, award-winning poet Stone (In the Next Galaxy) continues to write and publish. Her new volume concerns loss of vision and other faculties diminished by age: "the hand trembles,/ and the three-dimensional/ words in their electrical/ circuits come to the gates/ and find them locked." She pins down the homely details of everyday life with deadpan humor: "Your gray glasses are for playing the piano./ Your brown glasses, for strong reading./ Nothing but sugar in the cupboard./ That's when the voice from the galaxy/ comes back, saying praise be, it had a good/ sleep; it is ready to translate." While this late work lacks some of the sharp edge and linguistic energy of the earlier poems, there is a kind of gorgeous ease in poems like "My Mother's Phlox," where flowers sent by the poet via UPS merge seamlessly with mother love and poetry, gifts that "need almost no care./ They cast their seed. They thrive on neglect." For all poetry collections. E.M. Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine LLP Law Lib., New York Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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