Trances of the Blast
Title | Trances of the Blast PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1950268268 |
"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."—David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence."—Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America, William Carlos Williams Award citation Trances of the Blast is a major new collection from recent National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Mary Ruefle. Full of Ruefle's particular wisdom and wit, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts—its paradoxes, failures, and loss—and help us better appreciate its redeeming strangeness. If only I'd understood that loneliness was just loneliness, only loneliness and nothing more. But I was blind. Little did I know. If only I'd invented salt. I might have died happy. I wish I loved you, but you can't have everything. Mary Ruefle is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams 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. Her book of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.
Trances of the Blast
Title | Trances of the Blast PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1933517913 |
Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle—moving, authoritative, generous.
Trances of the Blast
Title | Trances of the Blast PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1933517735 |
A much-anticipated new collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle—moving, authoritative, generous.
Language of the Senses
Title | Language of the Senses PDF eBook |
Author | Kerry McSweeney |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780773517400 |
In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods.
My Private Property
Title | My Private Property PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 2020-07-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 195026825X |
Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. 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.
A Little White Shadow
Title | A Little White Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 50 |
Release | 2006-05-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1933517034 |
An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.
Selected Poems
Title | Selected Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ruefle |
Publisher | Wave Books |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2011-08-16 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1933517565 |
A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.