Look to the Future
Ruth Stone, “Look to the Future” from Simplicity. Copyright © 1995 by Ruth Stone. Reprinted with the permission of Paris Press, Inc.
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Poet Ruth Stone 1915–2011
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Time & Brevity, War & Conflict, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Social Commentaries
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
Poet Ruth Stone was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1915 and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lived in a rural farmhouse in Vermont for much of her life and received widespread recognition relatively late with the publication of Ordinary Words (1999). The book won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was soon followed by other award-winning collections, including In the Next Galaxy (2002), winner . . .
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, War & Conflict, Living, Disappointment & Failure, Social Commentaries
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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