Luz Bones
—those bones comprising the coccyx, or tailbone,
which according to legend are the last to decay
in the grave, thereby seemingly immortal
Inside my father's, in life, staphylococcus
Books of Poetry
by Myrna Stone
The Resurrectionist’s Diary
Within these pages Myrna Stone explores both love and death and the matters of the heart to which they are inextricably tied. The lost brother, the mother taken too early, the grieving widower, and the other women, real and invented, who too often overshadowed by their fathers, lovers, husbands, or sons, are at last given their own historical and emotional due. Whether they speak from their own lives in dramatic monologues, through the narrator's voice, or through her own, Stone brings them each alive in these fleshed-out poems of breadth and breath.
Luz Bones
In Luz Bones, a collection of wild, intense, and fiercely-crafted sonnets and other poems, Myrna Stone takes us on a journey through time and the psyche that is both novelistic and deeply lyrical. The range of voices—from Martin Luther's to Mae West's—explores both mortality and what might lie beyond it.
In the Present Tense:
Portraits of My Father
In the most personal of all her books and the most wrenching to write, Myrna Stone chronicles her father's long, charmed, and often difficult life to its inevitable end.
How Else
To Love the World
What can redeem “the addle and dross the hours devise?” Stone asks. One answer she provides here is “this carnal life,” whether manifested in human touch or in the “stroke of flesh and brush” on painted canvas.
The Casanova Chronicles
In this book of voices, speakers resurrected from the deeper past and the dead chafe against the circumstances of love, sex, loss, and longing.
The Art of Loss
In her debut collection, Myrna Stone catalogues the losses that accrue over time and the ways in which we deal with these losses: the loss of loved ones; of faith; of innocence—losses of both a personal, and of a larger, historical nature—losses that simultaneously deplete and elevate.
Sample Poetry
Myrna Stone’s poems have been featured in journals, on websites and public radio, and in many other media. A wide sampling of her poetry can be found online.
There has not been, nor shall not be
birdsong as beguiling as John James
mocking a mocker in our chokecherry
tree
About
Myrna Stone
Myrna Stone is the author of six books of poetry and a founding member of The Greenville Poets.
