Book

Ordinary words / by Ruth Stone.

Record details

ISBN: 0963818384
ISBN: 9780963818393 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0963818384
ISBN: 9780963818386
Physical Description: 74 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ashfield, Mass. : Paris Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Good Advice -- Up There -- Words -- This -- The Dark -- Summing It Up -- 1941 -- How They Got Her to Quiet Down -- So What -- Madison in the Mid-Sixties -- Repetition -- Perhaps -- Echoes and Shadows -- Earthquake -- Male Gorillas -- Never -- An Education in the Eighties -- Absence Proves Nothing -- So What's Wrong? -- Relatives -- Strands -- Can Cranes Cogitate? -- Aesthetics of the Cattle Farm -- Incredible Buys In -- Light Conclusions -- Uncle Cal on Fashions -- Yes, Think -- Hummingbirds -- The Ways of Daughters -- Then -- Ordinary Words -- When -- Patience -- One Thought -- Residue -- Sorting It Out -- The Trade-Off -- Romance -- Reading -- With Love -- So Be It -- In the Arboretum -- Overnight Guest -- All in Time -- Schmaltz -- The Trinity -- A Moment -- Ventriloquist -- This Space -- Unspeakable -- Vermont Nature -- Prefab -- I Meet Them -- At McDonald's in Rutland -- The Word Though as a Coupler -- Etc. -- Sitcom on the Greyhound in Rutland, Vermont -- On the Street -- At the Museum, 1938 -- Speculation -- Bottled Water -- Western Purdah, Inc. -- Empathy Again -- Boom -- Moving Right Along -- A Little Chart -- Prayer of Descending Order.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also issued online.