From an Album of Verses
Published on 2. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-912963-59-1 (ISBN)
Description
Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor, and journalist from New York City. He worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal. The most recent of his nine poetry books are "Sounds of Summer in the Country" (BlazeVOX, 2025), "Close Your Eyes, Visions" (Station Hill, 2024), "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Station Hill, 2020), "The Mouth of the Bay" (BlazeVOX, 2019), "American Songbook" (Ugly Duckling, 2013), and "Compulsive Words" (BlazeVOX, 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry is "Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices" (Station Hill, 2012). This book won the James Tate Poetry Prize 2024.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
67 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912963-59-1 (9781912963591)
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Michael Ruby is a poet, literary editor, and journalist from New York City. He worked for many years as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal. The most recent of his nine poetry books are "Sounds of Summer in the Country" (BlazeVOX, 2025), "Close Your Eyes, Visions" (Station Hill, 2024), "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Station Hill, 2020), "The Mouth of the Bay" (BlazeVOX, 2019), "American Songbook" (Ugly Duckling, 2013), and "Compulsive Words" (BlazeVOX, 2010). His trilogy in prose and poetry, "Memories, Dreams and Inner Voices" (Station Hill, 2012), includes ebooks "Fleeting Memories" (Ugly Duckling, 2008) and "Inner Voices Heard Before Sleep" (Argotist, 2011). His other ebooks are Close Your Eyes (Argotist, 2018), Titles & First Lines (Mudlark, 2018) and Compulsive Words (Argotist, 2024). He is co-editor of books by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh, as well as of the forthcoming selected poems of Steve Dalachinsky.