Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1 - Knowing Ruth Stone - On Ruth Stone - Leslie Fiedler -- - Ruth Stone and her poems - Sharon Olds -- - Poetry and life, poetry and Ruth - Jan Freeman -- - Like a laser beam - Martha Nell Smith -- - pt. 2 - A life of art - Mapping Ruth Stone's life and art - Wendy Barker -- - The poetry of Ruth Stone - Norman Friedman -- - An interview with Ruth Stone: 1973 - Sandra M. Gilbert -- - An interview with Ruth Stone: 1990 - Robert Bradley -- - Poet in the mountains - Willis Barnstone -- - pt. 3 - Reading Ruth Stone - The comedic art of Ruth Stone - Diane Waskoski -- - Ruth Stone's magic mixture - Diana O'Hehir -- - "The wife's went bazook": comedic feminism in the poetry of Ruth Stone - Kevin Clark -- - Violence and war, ethics and erotics: Ruth Stone's "miraculous translations" - Elyse Blankley -- - Experiencing otherness: Ruth Stone's art of inference - Roger Gilbert -- - The clever widow: grief-work, humor, and narrative in Ruth Stone's poetry - Janet Lowery -- - "Who is the widow's muse?": a memoir and reading of Ruth Stone - Aliki Barnstone -- - "Under the seal of my widowhood" - Kandace Brill Lombart -- - Definitions of love: Ruth Stone's feminist Caritas - Sandra M. Gilbert
