Amerikas Achmatowa

There are words in Ms. Stone’s poems that cannot be printed in this newspaper, even for art’s sake. The words are not written for effect, they are there because of a brutal honesty. Indeed, Ms. Stone is sometimes called America’s Akhmatova. Like that poet of Russia’s post-revolutionary suffering, Ms. Stone doesn’t go for Symbolist tricks. Like Akhmatova, she writes uncompromisingly about passion and unbearable loss; about living in poverty and on the margins of experience. / The New York Times 10.12.02 über die 78jährige Dichterin Ruth Stone