Ruth Stone: a gift from the universe.

From: The American Poetry Review | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

I MET RUTH STONE MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS ago at Indiana University, in 1973, the year Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence appeared. The book anatomized the nervousness a young poet was supposed to feel when he found he'd borrowed or stolen from a poet-predecessor: William Blake's complexes about John Milton, for example. Bloom had evolved an entire mythology for this anxiety, lifting his terms from Blake. I adored Blake, and it confused me that I was supposed to feel resentful of his utterly glorious effect on me. Moreover, I'd go through most of my college years hungry for ...

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