The House is Made of Poetry; The Art of Ruth Stone
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
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Stiff unmarked book in glossy dust jacket; about new.; 8.9 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches; 236 pages; Ruth Stone has always eschewed self-promotion and, in the words of Leslie Fiedler, "has never been a member of any school or clique or gaggle of mutual admirers." But her poems speak so vibrantly for her that she cannot be ignored. In her preface to this volume, Sandra M. Gilbert declares that Stone’s "intense attention to the ordinary transforms it into (or reveals it as) the extraordinary. Her passionate verses evoke impassioned responses." At the same time, Gilbert continues, the essays collected here "consistently testify to Stone’s radical unworldliness, in particular her insouciant contempt for the ‘floor walkers and straw bosses’ who sometimes seem to control the poetry ‘factory’ both inside and outside the university." Wendy Barker and Sandra Gilbert have organized the book into three sections: "Knowing Ruth Stone," "A Life of Art," and "Reading Ruth Stone." In "Knowing Ruth Stone," writers of different generations who have known the poet over the years provide memoirs. Noting Stone’s singularity, Fiedler points out that "she resists all labels" and is "one of the few contemporaries whom it is possible to think of simply as a ‘poet. ’" Sharon Olds defines her vitality ("A Ruth Stone poem feels alive in the hands") , and Jan Freeman praises her aesthetic intensity ("Everything in the life of Ruth Stone is integrated with poetry"). "A Life of Art" sketches the outlines of Stone’s career and traces her evolution as a poet. Barker and Norman Friedman, for example, trace her development from the "high spirits and elegant craft" of her first volume—In an Iridescent Time— through the "deepening shadows," "poignant wit," and "bittersweet meditations" of her later work. In interviews separated by decades (one in the 1970s and one in the 1990s) , Sandra Gilbert and Robert Bradley discuss with Stone her own sense of her aesthetic origins and literary growth. "Reading Ruth Stone" is an examination of Stone’s key themes and modes. Diane Wakoski and Diana O’Hehir focus on the tragicomic vision that colors much of her work; Kevin Clark and Elyse Blankley explore the political aspects of her poetry; Roger Gilbert analyzes her "often uncannily astute insights into the ‘otherness’ of other lives"; Janet Lowery and Kandace Brill Lombart draw on the biographical background of Stone’s "grief work"; and Sandra Gilbert studies her caritas, her empathic love that redeems pain. …
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- Title
- The House is Made of Poetry; The Art of Ruth Stone
- Author
- Barker, Professor Wendy & Professor Sandra M. Gilbert
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809320126
- ISBN 13
- 9780809320127
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
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About the Author
Wendy Barker is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A widely published poet, she has authored two books of verse, Winter Chickens and Let the Ice Speak. Her scholarly work includes Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor, available from Southern Illinois University Press.
Sandra M. Gilbert, a professor of English at the University of California, Davis, is the author of Acts of Attention: The Poems of D. H. Lawrence, available from Southern Illinois University Press, and the author or editor, along with Susan Gubar, of such germinal works of feminist criticism as The Madwoman in the Attic and the three-volume No Mans Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. She has also published five collections of her own poetry and a prose memoir, Wrongful Death.
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