Visions Fugitive is Ralph Gustafson's last book of poetry, completed not long before his death in North Hatley, Quebec, in May 1995. In a writing career that spanned sixty years he published many volumes of poetry and edited the influential Penguin Book of Canadian Verse. Fire on Stone, published in 1974, won the Governor General's Award for Poetry and Configurations at Midnight received the 1993 QSPELL A.M. Klein Poetry Prize.