Staying Blue

by Gibbons Ruark

Staying Blue is Gibbons Ruark's eighth collection of poetry. He has won an NEA Poetry Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and in 1984 the Saxifrage Prize. James Wright praised Keeping Company as an exploration of "the shapely possibilities of language and its sound," and X.L. Kennedy said of Passing Through Customs that "you would have to sift through the life's work of a great many poets to find another hundred pages nearly as fine as these."

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Bruce Henricksen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a marvelous collection of Ruark's recent poetry. Still active, he published in The New Yorker in March of 2013. I hope another collection will appear soon!