{"product_id":"in-the-dark-hardcover-1","title":"In the Dark - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRuth Stone\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen asked whether poets improve with age Ruth Stone, 89, replied: \"There's no question. If your brain goes on and on, as it should under normal conditions, there's more in it and your writing will get more profound.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYear after year, Ruth Stone's poems turn ever more penetrating. Fresh from her National Book Award, this prophetic new book is filled with winter, fractals, and passionate aging: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"What is a Poem?\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaving come this far\u003cbr\u003ewith a handful of alphabet, \u003cbr\u003eI am forced, \u003cbr\u003ewith these few blocks, \u003cbr\u003eto invent the universe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience, politics, art, and fellow small-town citizens all play pivotal roles in her poems. From the cilia in the ear of an owl to cheap paint peeling off the walls, Ruth Stone presents a world dissected and revealed: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The Driveway\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsphalt is a kind of urban lava flow\u003cbr\u003ethat creeps from plot to plot along a street;\u003cbr\u003eaffluent, weedless, slow, and cancerous;\u003cbr\u003epressure from the magma populace\u003cbr\u003efor easy maintenance; neat status-symbolic, \u003cbr\u003eeasy to wash with the garden hose\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her poems startle us over and over,\" Galway Kinnell said when presenting Stone the Wallace Stevens Award, \"with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness . . . the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Stone\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nine books of poetry. She is the recipient of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award (with which she bought plumbing for her house) and two Guggenheim Fellowships (one of which roofed her house). After her husband committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone. For twenty years she taught creative writing at many universities, finally settling at Binghamton University. Today, Ruth Stone lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth Stone is the author of nine books of poetry, for which she has received the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award. She taught creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. She lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 113\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9.28 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771617116448,"sku":"9781556592102","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1ca7657600cf1a67b560039f81f1ff37.webp?v=1780389642","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-the-dark-hardcover-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}