"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws
"Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side. . . . She is not writing with a prescription, or at l
"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing." Tony Hoagland, On the SeawallAuthor of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according
"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, undo
"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."?Tony Hoagland"For more
"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poe
“[Mary] Ruefle . . . brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.”—Charles SimicFans of Lydia Davis and Miranda July will delight in this
Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle’s ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunte
A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.Finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Cir
