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Books by Mary Ruefle
  | | My Private Property(Reprint) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2017 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-940696-51-5, ISBN: 1-940696-51-8 ""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 least not one for this earth. Nor is she celebrating the commonplace. She is concentrating on one thing at a time."—New York Times "The property that Ruefle deems private is the impalpable nature of the inner life we all share; it is at once ..." |
 | | Madness, Rack, and Honey(1st Edition) Collected Lectures by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2012 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-57-5, ISBN: 1-933517-57-3 "This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff w ..." |
 | | Selected Poems(2nd Edition) by Mary Ruefle, Dara Wier Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-56-8, ISBN: 1-933517-56-5 ""["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 poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."--Tony Hoagland"of all things standing furthestfrom what is real, stand these treesshaking with dispensable j ..." |
 | | A Little White Shadow(1st Edition) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2006 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-03-2, ISBN: 1-933517-03-4 "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, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A high-quality replica of the original aged, delicate book in which Ruefle erased” the text, this book will appeal to fans of poetry as well as visual art.Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack ..." |
 | | Trances of the Blast(1st Edition) by Mary Ruefle Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2013 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-73-5, ISBN: 1-933517-73-5 ""["Madness, Rack, and Honey"] is 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""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 ..." |
 | | Apparition Hill(1st Edition) by Mary Ruefle, David R. Starbuck Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 2002 by Cavankerry ISBN-13: 978-0-9678856-6-7, ISBN: 0-9678856-6-3 "Mary Ruefle is an observer who seeks to bring sense and order to her world. This is a world that can span continents and centuries, but in each. the poem is defined by where she is at that moment. Many of the poems in Apparition Hill were written in or about China, and Ruefle brings an eye for the universal to what she finds in the exotic, as she transcends both time and geography." |
 | | Dunce by Mary Ruefle Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-940696-85-0, ISBN: 1-940696-85-2 "A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist, drawing many fans from around the world to her unique vision. With Dunce she returns to the practice that has always been at her core: the making of poems. With her startlingly fresh sensibility, she en ..." |
 | | The Most of It(1st Edition) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-29-2, ISBN: 1-933517-29-8 "“[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 short prose from a beloved and cutting-edge poet. Here are thirty stories that deliver the soft touch and the sucker punch with stunning aplomb. Ducks, physicists, detectives, and The New York Times all make appearances.From “The Dart and ..." |
 | | Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2001 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-354-7, ISBN: 0-88748-354-2 "A reissuing of Cold Pluto, poems by Mary Ruefle." |
 | | On Imagination (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2017 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-941411-47-6, ISBN: 1-941411-47-9 ""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 inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. The chapbook features original interior illustrations.Mary Ruefle is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, ..." |
 | | My Private Property (Wave Books) by Mary Ruefle Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-940696-38-6, ISBN: 1-940696-38-0 "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.PersonaliaWhen I was young, a fortune-teller told me tha ..." |
 | | Trances of the Blast(Reprint) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2014 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-91-9, ISBN: 1-933517-91-3 ""We emerge from these poems, scathed and awakened."--Poetry "An excellent choice for any collection looking to expand poetry beyond the obvious."--Library Journal, starred review Trances of the Blast is a major new collection from beloved and award-winning poet Mary Ruefle. Full of the peculiarity and wit characteristic of Ruefle's work, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts--its paradoxes, failures, and loss--and ..." |
 | | Selected Poems(1st Edition) by Mary Ruefle Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Wave Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933517-45-2, ISBN: 1-933517-45-X "Poetry. A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master, SELECTED POEMS gathers together the finest work from her distinguished and inimitable poetic career, showcasing the arc of her development as one of the most brilliant, expert and hilarious practitioners of the art. Anyone who wishes for poetry to be both richly challenging and thoroughly entertaining, need look no further than this monolithic retrospective." |
 | | Indeed I Was Pleased With the World(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2007 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-467-4, ISBN: 0-88748-467-0 "Poets of astonishing vision are rare. Mary Ruefle is of their number. Her poems discover the full beauty and anguish of life that most of us dare not see, much less depict in luminous detail for the ages." |
 | | Quarternote Chapbook On Imagination by Mary Ruefle 32 Pages, Published 2017 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-02-6, ISBN: 1-946448-02-8 "Mary Ruefle is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, including Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos ..." |
 | | Music & Literature No. 4(1st Edition) by Clarice Lispector, Mary Ruefle, Maya Homburger, Barry Guy, John Eliot Gardiner, Benjamin Moser, Daniel Medin Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Music & Literature, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-9888799-3-5, ISBN: 0-9888799-3-X "More than 40 writers, musicians, and translators from around the world gather for Music & Literature's celebration of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector, Swiss baroque violinist Maya Homburger and her partner, composer-double bassist Barry Guy, and American poet Mary Ruefle. The number opens with an intimate portrait of the Brazilian legend, assembled through premiere folios of Lispector's letters and paintings, as well as her candid ..." |
 | | The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2005 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-436-0, ISBN: 0-88748-436-0 "Book by Ruefle, Mary" |
 | | Tristimania(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2004 by Carnegie Mellon ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-407-0, ISBN: 0-88748-407-7 "Poems Mary Ruefle ... James Harms Clemency and Other Poems, Colette Inez Scattering the Ashes, Jeff Friedman Sacred Conversations, Peter Cooley Life Among the Trolls, Maura Stanton 1999 Justice, Caroline Finkelstein Edge of House, ..." |
 | | Among the Musk Ox People(1st Edition) Poems by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2002 by Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-367-7, ISBN: 0-88748-367-4 "Book by Ruefle, Mary" |
 | | Post Meridian(1st Edition) (Carnegie Mellon Poetry) by Mary Ruefle Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2000 by Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-302-8, ISBN: 0-88748-302-X "There's a line in a Mary Ruefle poem which speaks of the smell of freshly sharpened pencils." |
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