- Audio CD
- Publisher: Paris Press (Sep 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930464029
- ISBN-13: 978-1930464025
- Product Dimensions: 15.3 x 14.7 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
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Product Description
Product Description
Ruth Stone was the winner of the most recent National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
The first in a new series of Paris Press CD's, Ruth Stone reads from her National Book Critics Circle Award winning poems. Poetry Alive! reveals Stone's fabulous reading style-musical, funny, acerbic, and sorrowful. This CD will be a favorite for the young at heart and the weary, for poetry novices and poetry stars, for all of Stone's beloved listeners and readers-her all-American and international knee-slapping fans.
"Good Advice"
Here is not exactly here
because it passed by there
two seconds ago;
where it will not come back.
Although you adjust to this-
it's nothing, you say,
just the way it is.
How poor we are,
with all this running
through our fingers.
"Here," says the Devil,
"Eat. It's Paradise."
Ruth Stone was born in 1915 in Roanoke, Virginia. The recipient of numerous accolades, such as the Whiting Award and the Delmore Schwartz Award, Stone received tenure from SUNY Binghamton at the age of 75, and she continues to teach full time. Ruth Stone has been writing since the age of three; she has published 11 books and has a devoted following of young and old students, writers, and readers. New York State Poet Laureate Sharon Olds calls Stone her "Mother poet." And so do many other poets throughout the country. Stone is funny, wise, and sharply honest. She lives in Vermont.
Also available by Ruth Stone
Ordinary Words
HC $19.95, 0-9638183-9-2 CUSA
PB $14.95, 0-9638183-8-4 CUSA
Simplicity
PB $12.95, 0-9638183-1-7 CUSA
The first in a new series of Paris Press CD's, Ruth Stone reads from her National Book Critics Circle Award winning poems. Poetry Alive! reveals Stone's fabulous reading style-musical, funny, acerbic, and sorrowful. This CD will be a favorite for the young at heart and the weary, for poetry novices and poetry stars, for all of Stone's beloved listeners and readers-her all-American and international knee-slapping fans.
"Good Advice"
Here is not exactly here
because it passed by there
two seconds ago;
where it will not come back.
Although you adjust to this-
it's nothing, you say,
just the way it is.
How poor we are,
with all this running
through our fingers.
"Here," says the Devil,
"Eat. It's Paradise."
Ruth Stone was born in 1915 in Roanoke, Virginia. The recipient of numerous accolades, such as the Whiting Award and the Delmore Schwartz Award, Stone received tenure from SUNY Binghamton at the age of 75, and she continues to teach full time. Ruth Stone has been writing since the age of three; she has published 11 books and has a devoted following of young and old students, writers, and readers. New York State Poet Laureate Sharon Olds calls Stone her "Mother poet." And so do many other poets throughout the country. Stone is funny, wise, and sharply honest. She lives in Vermont.
Also available by Ruth Stone
Ordinary Words
HC $19.95, 0-9638183-9-2 CUSA
PB $14.95, 0-9638183-8-4 CUSA
Simplicity
PB $12.95, 0-9638183-1-7 CUSA
About the Author
Ruth 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.
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