What love comes to
Subtitle: new & selected poems
By: Ruth Stone ; foreword by Sharon Olds.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9781556592713
Description: What Love Comes To gathers nearly half a century of poems from a National Book Award-winning poet who, over the course of her career, has written in a wide range of voices and forms. Drawing from eleven previous volumes, this collection offers a trajectory through that career, presenting Ruth Stone from her early formal lyrics, through fierce feminist and political poems, to her most recent meditations on blindness and aging. Stone, at age ninety-two, returns often to the theme of loss in her work, all the while maintaining what the Vermont poet laureate nominations committee calls "a sense of survival surpassing poverty and grief. ... Her poetry's irrepressible humor and intellectual curiosity are unique among contemporary American poets."