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Selected Poems Paperback – August 16, 2011

by Mary Ruefle (Author)

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"[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 furthest
from what is real, stand these trees
shaking with dispensable joy . . .

Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It, a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow, a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.

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"Her Selected Poems, like the work of William Carlos Williams, is a testimony not only to the power of artfulness, but to human empathy."—Rodney Jones, from his 2011 William Carlos Williams Award citation

"This first retrospective collection from Ruefle, which selects from her nine previous books of poetry... shows her to be a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor."—Publishers Weekly

"One of the enjoyable paradoxes of reading Ruefle’s work is how easy it is to read, but how many possible meanings you can make. Though sometimes described as an experimental or “post-avant” poet, I have always found Ruefle’s work intelligently accessible, charming and reader-friendly."—Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Rumpus

"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, On the Seawall

"Her Selected Poems, like the work of William Carlos Williams, is a testimony not only to the power of artfulness, but to human empathy."―Rodney Jones, from his 2011 William Carlos Williams Award citation

"This first retrospective collection from Ruefle, which selects from her nine previous books of poetry... shows her to be a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor."―Publishers Weekly

"One of the enjoyable paradoxes of reading Ruefle’s work is how easy it is to read, but how many possible meanings you can make. Though sometimes described as an experimental or “post-avant” poet, I have always found Ruefle’s work intelligently accessible, charming and reader-friendly."―Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Rumpus

"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, On the Seawall

About the Author

Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). 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.

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Wave Books; Second edition (August 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933517565
ISBN-13: 978-1933517568
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 6 customer reviews
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October 1, 2014

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This book was my first introduction to Mary Ruefle's poetry. She has an original poetic voice and her imagery is beautiful. I was enchanted!

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Lovely poems from Mary Ruefle

October 14, 2013

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My only experience with Mary Ruefle was her book of critical writing/essays: Madness, Wrack, & Honey. The selected poems are a lovely introduction for me to her poetic work. The ways in which she moves between the "poetic" & mundane is inspiring.

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A brilliant poet!

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January 4, 2017

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arrived in excellent shape

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Engaging but fragmented

January 9, 2018

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The phrases flow in a stream-of-consciousness manner in these poems, giving the impression that they are coming to a point and always veering off into something unrelated. While the language can be very beautiful and sometimes engrossing ("We lean against the sky"), I have to admit I found it tedious to try following the thoughts of the author. Sometimes it felt as if each sentence could stand alone as its own poem. And sometimes the incongruities of juxtaposing unrelated thoughts became humorous--intentionally, I'm sure. I rate the book fairly highly because of some poems that escape that fragmentation, such as "Furthermore," which I interpolate from other poems to be an epitaph to the author's mother, and "The Great Loneliness."

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Are these poems?

June 29, 2013

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It startled me that Ruefle who writes such insightful and luminous short prose pieces wants these to pass as poetry, simply because they are lineated as a poem. Whatever happened to rhythm and euphony? These short whatever-they-are's are often witty and elicited some chuckles from me, but this is not what I call poetry.

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