Ruth Stone
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Uploaded by hemu1en on May 21, 2009
Ruth Stone is a true American original. Now aged 93, she is still writing poetry of extraordinary variety and radiance. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her in Vermont in September 2008. Ruth is almost blind but knows many of her poems by heart, and recites (or sings) several poems in this short film (prompted occasionally by editor Neil Astley). Born in Virginia in 1915, she has lived in rural Vermont for much of her life. In 1959, after her husband committed suicide, she had to raise three daughters alone, all the time writing what she called her love poems, all written to a dead man who forced her to 'reside in limbo' with her daughters. The poems are all from her recent retrospective WHAT LOVE COMES TO: NEW & SELECTED POEMS: 'In an Iridescent Time', 'Orchard', 'The Talking Fish', 'The Excuse', 'Advice', 'I Have Three Daughters' (which she sings), 'Mantra' and 'The Season'. The poems are included here by permission of her publishers Copper Canyon Press in the US and Bloodaxe Books in the UK. For more details, see: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852248416
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PoetryETrain 2 months ago
A universe has been lost.
Tziedelcat 3 months ago
rest in peace...
rsswd 3 months ago
Summer is always busy spring the same but winter is winter and knowledge came. I beieve that we are made to work in spring and summer and learn in the winter. We learn in the winter whilst we have fattened up in the summer. . The 40hr weeks is a nonsense and we should totally reject it.
pambayla 3 months ago
Love Ruth stone! I went to Binghamton for grad school, where she taught. I didn't study with her, but heard her read a few times and was always amazed. She's fabulous; thanks for posting!
lorianne1971 5 months ago
her face looks old yet alive like a 19 year old's
drmedwuast 7 months ago
Just divine. Thank you for bringing this to the world.
seachild2 2 years ago
gentle beneath the apple tree...93? her sense of rhythm, her memory puts lie to all those ideas of Age being some sort of thief; stealing the better Us from ourselves. beautiful.
TheSauti 2 years ago 2