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Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including The Book (Wave Books, 2023), Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize, longlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, as well as a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. She is also the author of My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has also published a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007), and is 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). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, 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, where she serves as the state’s poet laureate.Books by Mary RuefleThe Book (Wave Books, 2023)Dunce (Wave Books, 2020)My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016)Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013)Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010)The Most of It (Wave Books, 2008)Go Home and Go to Bed! (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007)A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006)Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2007)The Adamant (University of Iowa Press, 1989)Also Referenced in the EpisodeAlso Referenced3 Days of Poetry hosted by Wave BooksReading with Rachel The Will-O’-the-Wisps Are in Town by Hans Christian AndersenDiane Wolkstein’s Hans Christan Anderson: Classic Stories“Pause” by Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle on David Naimon’s Between the Covers (podcast)The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth GrahameMary Ruefle on Jordan Kisner‘s Thresholds (podcast)My Dinner with Andre (movie)MASS MOCA ‘s Tree LogicJames TurrellThe Art of Cruelty by Maggie NelsonBeing with Dying by Joan HalifaxBiosphere 2Spiral JettyAndy GoldsworthyIkkuyuHans Christian AndersenGutenberg BibleThe Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Kobayashi Issa The Essential Haiku by Robert Hass
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