In the Next Galaxy

Ruth Stone · 2002 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Poems by a woman in her late eighties of widowhood, poverty and the long afterlife of a husband's suicide in 1959, written in clear, unfussy lines with a flicker of cosmic humour. The dead husband remains the standing subject. A late-career lyric collection that won the National Book Award when its author was eighty-seven.

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