Born in 1941, Gibbons Ruark has published his poems widely for over forty years. Staying Blue is his eighth collection. The recipient of many awards, including three NEA Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize and the 1984 Saxifrage Prize for Keeping Company, he lives with his wife Kay in Raleigh, North Carolina.
PRAISE FOR GIBBONS RUARK’S EARLIER BOOKS
A Program for Survival: “These poems stay in the mind because they have been, many of them, driven there so deeply they will not pry loose.”
- Michael Heffernan
Reeds: “This book resists reviewing the way a window resists rain. The reason is, it’s as translucently beautiful as glass.”
- Kelly Cherry
Keeping Company: “Gibbons Ruark has ventured to think about the shapely possibilities of the language and its sound, and he has discovered that his intelligence, so far from inhibiting his verse, has freed it."
- James Wright
Rescue the Perishing: “These are poems of extraordinary beauty.”
- Publishers Weekly
Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems: “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.”
- X.J. Kennedy
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