Böcker av Ruth Stone

A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review

The Essential Ruth Stone collects a beloved American poet¿s career-defining poems into a single, incandescent volume.

This retrospective of the work of Ruth Stone (1915-2011) presents a comprehensive selection that includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems, and meditations on the author's husband suicide, on love, loss, blindness and ageing. Poetry Book Society Recommendation, with a foreword by Sharon Olds.