About this title: A previous National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet presents precise, subtle meditations on domesticity and its accompanying mysteries. IN THE NEXT GALAXY was awarded the National Book Award for Poetry in 2002.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Date Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN-13:9781556591785ISBN:1556591780
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Date Published: 2002-05-01
ISBN-13:9781556591785ISBN:1556591780
Description: Good. Never read ex-library hardback book with dustjacket, typical library markings, no highlighting, underlining or notes, good reading, study and research book. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781556591785ISBN:1556591780
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. x, 99 pp. Burgundy cloth. As issued. Very slight shelf wear to dust jacket, virtually as issued. read more
Edition: Second printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, WA
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9781556591785ISBN:1556591780
Description: Very Good in very good jacket. Light wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket, small margin of sunning and bit of soiling to lower front cover; jacket rubbed. 8vo, 96 pp. read more
Edition: First edition, first printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon
Date Published: 2002
Description: Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Cover art by Olga Antonova. The first edition, first printing of this title has become increasingly scarce. read more
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"I'd heard about Ruth Stone through Wom-Po, the Women's Poetry LISTSERV. Somewhere, maybe Facebook, I was sent a video of her reciting her poems from memory for nearly an hour. That was amazing, Ruth Stone is in her 90s and nearly blind, she can no longer read her work. The fact she memorized and read her work with such passion astounds me. So when I came across "In the Next Galaxy" at a second hand bookstore I bought it. It won The National Book Award.
In the middle of reading her book I attended a Writer's Craft talk that focused on contradiction to build tension. The poet who gave the talk provided lots of examples and it intrigued me. Picking up Ruth Stone's book after hearing this lecture I was amazed to find a plenora of contradictions though out her work.
Some examples: In her poem "Wanting" it starts with the lines, "Wanting and dissatisfaction/are the main ingredients/of happiness." and at the end, "To violate beauty/is the essence of sexual desire./To procreate is the essence of decay." In an amazing poem about her long term marriage, "Getting to Know You," she writes, "Miraculous dull day to day/breakfast and dinner." I love this poem. In the title itself, "Sorrow and No Sorrow," she writes, "and what is not there/is always more than there." In "Train Ride" she plays with the repeated stanza, "Do all things come to an end?/No, they go on forever.: She gives us rich lists of what ends and what goes on forever, proving her point. In "Assumptions," the line, "The inner is really the outer."
Her language is full of science, fractals, parasites, and names of scientists I do not know, This is not a world I am easy in or understand, but I enjoyed reading this book and know there is much I can harvest from it if I dig deeper to study it. Not sure I'll do that, but it is an opening book by an amazing woman."
"This was my discovery of Ruth Stone. The images are often strong and sometimes so unhappy and unpleasant but somehow delicate -- I could almost hear some of the poems intoned as chant as I read them."
"I love this women. She was going blind and nearly an octogenarian when she wrote this. When asked, to paraphrase, if poets get better with age, she replied, "They should." Good god, they should, and she does. One of the few, unfortunately. This won her the National Book Award in 2002, and the same year she received the Wallace Stevens award from the Academy of American Poets. Also recommended would be In The Dark, a strong collection, but with a few misses."
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