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A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.
List of contents
Little Golf Pencil
Keys
Please Read
Lucky
Observations on the Ground
Blue
The Woman Who Couldn't Describe a Thing If She Could
Pause
Lullaby
Take Frank
Recollections of My Christmas Tree
Purple
Black
One Girl's Theory
To a Magazine
Milkshake
Gray
Red
Among the Clouds
My Private Property
Old Immortality
Green
Pink
In the Forest
The Hooded Dream of Dining
Like a Scarf
Orange
Yellow
Wild Forest Blood
Inky Flourish
Personalia
Outcast
Towards a Carefree World
Self-Criticism
White
Brown
They Were Wrong
The Gift
The Invasive Thing
The Sublime
A Strange Thing
About the author
Mary Ruefle is the author of "Trances of the Blast" (Wave Books, 2013), "Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures," a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and "Selected Poems" (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose ("The Most of It," Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, "Go Home and Go to Bed!," (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of "A Little White Shadow" (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.
Summary
A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.
