Ruth Stone's Vast Library of the Female Mind

synopsis

After a personal tragedy struck, poet Ruth Stone retreated to the margins of the literary world. Living in rural Vermont, she worked tirelessly to provide for her children and transform her intense grief into poetry, using simple, startling language.With a conversational, intimate approach, director Nora Jacobson combines rare archival footage of Stone at different times of her life with original animation by granddaughter Bianca Stone and heartfelt observations by family members and poets, including Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Stone's former student Sharon Olds, Toi Derricotte, Major Jackson, and Edward Hirsch.