‘One of the wisest books I’ve read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it.’—David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey
‘What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence.’—Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America, William Carlos Williams Award citation
Trances of the Blast is a major new collection from recent National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Mary Ruefle. Full of Ruefle’s particular wisdom and wit, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world’s rifts—its paradoxes, failures, and loss—and help us better appreciate its redeeming strangeness.
If only I’d understood that loneliness
was just loneliness, only loneliness
and nothing more.
But I was blind.
Little did I know.
If only I’d invented salt.
I might have died happy.
I wish I loved you,
but you can’t have everything.
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams 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. Her book of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Contents
Saga
Metaphysical Blight
Spikenard
The Estate of Single Blessedness
Are We Alone? Is It Safe to Speak?
Le Livre de ma Vie
En Route
Provenance
Müller and Me
Middle School
Fireworks
College
Mimosa
Greetings My Dear Ghost
The Day
New Morning
Receiving News of the Devastation of My Mind
Donkey On
Midsummer at Jefferson Slough
Jaroslav
Goodnight Irene
Nite Nite
Marco Polo
Little Eternities
Favorite Song
The Afternoon According to Saint Matthew
On Velvet Turf
Paris by Moonlight
Albert Finney Agon
Argot
Helium
Apologia
Hold That Thought
Ars Poetica
Spider
A Custom of Mourning
Abdication
A Penny for Your Thoughts
One World at a Time
Eric with the Light Brown Hair
Happy
Jumping Ahead
Women in Labor
Shalimar
Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful
The Bunny Gives Us a Lesson in Eternity
Open Letter to My Ancestors
Sawdust
Broken Spoke
Fall Leaf Studies
Platonic
Woodtangle
Trances of the Blast
White Buttons
Faster Love Is All There Is
The Seafood Fanciers
Calm, How Darest Thou Wait
The Art of Happiness
For Carlos
Literal
Pipkins of the Mimulus
Up Above
Peridot
Narrow Road to the North
Wings of Love
Dolorous Interlude
Rumors of Earth
What Went Ye Out Into May to See?
Bloodroot
Q&A
Sudden Additional Energy
Poem Written Before I Was Born
Elegy for a Game
With Love & Disregard
Picking Up Pinecones
Acknowledgments
Sobre o autor
Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including
Dunce(Wave Books, 2019), which is both a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award;
My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016);
Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013);
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and
Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She 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.
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