Mary Ruefle

My Private Property (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Personalia

When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her.

Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wave Books
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781950268252
• Artikelnr.: 59534830

Autorenporträt

Mary Ruefle is the author of "Trances of the Blast" (Wave Books, 2013), "Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures," a finalist for the 2013 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Little Golf Pencil
Keys
Please Read
Lucky
Observations on the Ground
Blue
The Woman Who Couldn't Describe a Thing If She Could
Pause
Lullaby
Take Frank
Recollections of My Christmas Tree
Purple
Black
One Girl's Theory
To a Magazine
Milkshake
Gray
Red
Among the Clouds
My Private Property
Old Immortality
Green
Pink
In the Forest
The Hooded Dream of Dining
Like a Scarf
Orange
Yellow
Wild Forest Blood
Inky Flourish
Personalia
Outcast
Towards a Carefree World
Self-Criticism
White
Brown
They Were Wrong
The Gift
The Invasive Thing
The Sublime
A Strange Thing