All We Have is Our Voice

ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE gives voice to artists, writers, and musicians, figures from myth and fairy tales. In her persona poems, Stone speaks most frequently in the voice of wives of famous husbands, such as Frau Freud, Mrs, Lincoln, Sonya Tolstoi, Mary Hemingway and women who were unrecognized for their own talents like Nina Grieg. The book also celebrates men and women who achieved success, Mary Shelley, Frida Kahlo, Cesar Vallejo, Raymond Carver, imagining them at stages of their lives. She then speaks in her own voice to celebrate the poets and artists she loves and who have influenced her: Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, Allen Ginsberg. Ultimately ALL WE HAVE IS OUR VOICE is a compendium of Stone's taste throughout her years of reading and writing poems.--From publisher.