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Synopsis
Ruth Stone writes with crackling intelligence from the vantage point of an aging and impoverished woman. Wise, sardonic, crafty, and misleadingly simple, Stone loves heavy themes but loathes heavy poems.
About the Author Ruth Stone, born in Virginia in 1915, has rightly been called America's Akhmatova and is considered "Mother Poet" to many contemporary writers. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Whiting Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Delmore Schwartz Award, the Cerf Lifetime Achievement Award from the state of Vermont, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She raised three daughters alone while teaching creative writing at many universities, including the University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, UC Davis, Brandeis, and finally settling at SUNY Binghampton. Today, Ruth Stone lives in Vermont.
USA Today
Ruth Stone's work is alternately witty, bawdy, touching, and profound. But never pompous. Her honesty and originality give her writing a sense of youth and newness because she looks at the world so clearly, without all the detritus of social convention the rest of us pick up along the way... Her writing proves to be simply inspired.