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.

Laughing Gas: Poems New & Selected 1963-1990

Literature & Fiction

WHITMAN, Ruth

Poetry

Wayne

Offers guidance for beginning poets on meters, free verse, revision, the development of an individual style, and the use of dreams and memories

Becoming a Poet

Writer

<p>Ruth Whitman has recreated the journal that Tamsen Donner lost on her nightmarish journey to California in 1846. With a grant from the National Endowment, Whitman traveled along the route of the Donner party, keeping her own diary and watching the American landscape unfold as it did to the eyes of a ninteenth-century New Englander. The journal, transforming historical fact into poetic insight, is a testimony to the optimism, dogged survival, integrity and courage of a woman pioneer. --Janet Falon, The Boston Globe</p>

Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey

Alice James Books

From reviews of other books by Ruth Whitman:Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey"A work of beauty and force… A major achievement."—BooklistThe Passion of Lizzie Borden: New and Selected Poems"A marvel of economy and feminine psychology."—Library Journal

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Laughing Gas: Poems New & Selected 1963-1990

Becoming a Poet

Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey

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