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QuickviewCompulsive Words by Michael Ruby
PoetryReading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. —Aaron Kiely$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Edge of the Underworld by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Call it immersion”: take Michael Ruby’s sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld’s underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. —Judith Goldman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Mouth Of The Bay by Michael Ruby
PoetryIn poems written on the rocky coast of Frenchman Bay in Maine, Michael Ruby begins with wisdom and ends with delight, reversing Frost’s famous dictum about poetry. The Mouth of the Bay begins with the wisdom of the Eleatic philosophers on the coasts of southern Italy and Sicily—“There is no beginning and there is no end”—and their calls for purification. Ruby writes the words that appear in his mind when he repeats sayings of Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Empedocles and others.$16.00 -
QuickviewWindow On The City by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Unreal City,” intones Mr. Eliot in his “The Waste Land,” bracketed by “One must be so careful these days” and “Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…. ” Ruby writes “velocity,” athwart “toodle to tabasco” and “orange sunshine.” What’s cold and taut in Eliot—strained—is hot and loose in Window on the City. —Sam Truitt$16.00
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