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Delectable fables with questionable morals--sweet and sharp and over too soon.
About the author
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including
Dunce(Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award;
My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016),
Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013),
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and
Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, 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, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.
Summary
Delectable fables with questionable morals--sweet and sharp and over too soon.
