Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness their humor theiryouthfulness their wild aptness their strangeness their sudden familiaritythe authori... » 

Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness their humor theiryouthfulness their wild aptness their strangeness their sudden familiaritythe authority of their insights the moral gulps they prompt their fierceexactness of language and memory.Galway Kinnell on presenting the WallaceStevens Award In the Next Galaxy gives us the unflinching vision of a womanwell into her 80s fully inhabiting body and mind.National Book AwardJudges statement Compassionate comic feminist and horrified by injusticeStones poems are composed with an accessible deftness.The Oregonian RuthStone has earned nearly every major literary award for her poetry. She taughtat many universities finally settling at SUNY Binghamton. Today she lives inVermont. «