{"product_id":"what-love-comes-to-new-selected-poems-9781556593277","title":"What Love Comes To: New \u0026 Selected Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human.\"—Pulitzer Prize finalist citation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a broad, powerful streak of independence—even disobedience—that runs through Stone''s writing and has inspired a great number of women after her.\"—\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, this retrospective of Ruth Stone''s poetry combines the best work from twelve previous volumes with an abundance of new poems. This comprehensive selection includes early formal lyrics, fierce political poems, and meditations on her husband''s suicide and her own blindness. As Sharon Olds says in her foreword, \"A Ruth Stone poem feels alive in the hands—ardent, independent, restless.\" \u003ci\u003eWhat Love Comes To\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary collection from an American original.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan it be that\u003cbr\u003ememory is useless,\u003cbr\u003elike a torn web\u003cbr\u003ehanging in the wind?\u003cbr\u003eSometimes it billows\u003cbr\u003eout, a full high gauze—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elike a canopy.\u003cbr\u003eBut the air passes\u003cbr\u003ethrough the rents\u003cbr\u003eand it falls again and flaps\u003cbr\u003eshapeless\u003cbr\u003elike the ghost rag that it is—\u003cbr\u003ehanging at the window\u003cbr\u003eof an empty room.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Stone\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of twelve books of poetry. Among her many awards are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Eric Mathieu King Award, a Whiting Award, and she was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. She taught creative writing at many universities, finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. She lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359611421015,"sku":"9781556593277","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556593277.jpg?v=1754125171","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-love-comes-to-new-selected-poems-9781556593277","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}