num_pages: 168
description: Mary Ruefle is one of the brilliant American poets of our time. Her work combines the spiritual desperation of Dickinson with the rhetorical virtuosity of Wallace Stevens. The result is a poetry at once ornate and intense; linguistically marvelous yes but also as visceral as anything you are likely to encounter.Tony HoaglandIn poems striking for their vivid playful and original use of the imagination [Mary Ruefle] brings us an often unnerving but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.Charles SimicSelected Poems brings together the finest work from Mary Ruefle's distinguished and inimitable poetic career showcasing the arc of her development as one of the most expert surprising 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 by a contemporary master.Mary Ruefle winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award for Selected Poems has published ten books of poetry a book of prose (The Most of It Wave Books 2008) and a comic book; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books 2006). Mary 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.
language: English
title: Selected Poems
publisher: Wave Books