Mary Ruefle
Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
About the Author
Works by Mary Ruefle
Associated Works
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributor — 34 copies
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contributor — 11 copies
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- Canonical name
- Ruefle, Mary
- Birthdate
- 1952
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Vermont, USA
- Education
- Bennington College
- Occupations
- professor
poet
essayist - Organizations
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
- Awards and honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1998)
Whiting Writers' Award (1995)
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- Works
- 24
- Also by
- 16
- Members
- 1,080
- Popularity
- #23,805
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 38
- ISBNs
- 37
- Favorited
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Or "I have a friend who believes that birds have souls but humans do not."
As Poetry Foundation's Janina Ambikapathy wrote "If this book is about recollection, and a meditation on the inevitable passing of all things, it is also about errors, cracks in our recall that switch the familiar world for one that is slightly strange. [Mary Ruefle|282933] writes about the fluctuating intensity of friendships, missed connections, and affections sent out into the world that bounce right back: “She kept calling, I didn’t pick up, and finally she stopped. I think she understood I was somehow not the same.” "The plum sat in the sun for three hours, its skin split apart and its syrup began to ooze out. When I bit into it, I thought of William Carlos Williams..."
"I am a tall person who is small and mean inside. For instance, I wake Christmas morning and begin to pack away all of my Christmas decorations."
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