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Synopsis
Ruth Whitman has been described as "a notable poet on the American scene" by the Boston Sunday Globe, and "a graceful poet, celebrating events of her life with charm, wit,
and intensity" in Library Journal. Once again she strikes a universal emotional chord with a provocative volume of new and selected poems from the past three decades, reflecting her experiences as a daughter, wife, mother, lover, rebel, creator, and survivor. A candid self-portrait, Laughing Gas offers great insight into one woman's understanding of the world.
In addition to her personal reflections, Ruth Whitman has broken ground in writing book-length lyric narratives in the voices of women from other times and places. In Laughing Gas, she continues to look to heroic women
whose lives have taught her about courage and the ability to survive the rebellious Lizzie Borden; the nineteenth-century pioneer, Tamsen Donner; the Israeli parachutist, Hanna Senesh; and dancer Anna Pavlova. Whitman 's use of the extensive narrative lyric, with its beautiful analogies to music and song, gives her a broader scope in her longer
works, as well as transforming and illuminating the lives of those about whom she writes.
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A candid self-portrait, Laughing Gas offers great insight into one woman's understanding of the world.
About the Author
Ruth Whitman is the recipient of numerous awards including Senior Fulbright Writer-in-Residence Fellowship to Hebrew University in
Jerusalem. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. Writer-in-Residence at many universities and
colleges. She has read widely in the United States. England. Israel. and Egypt. At present on leave from the Radcliffe College Seminars. she is Visiting Professor of Poetry at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- PublisherWayne
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0814323162
- ISBN 13 9780814323168
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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