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Eine junge Frau besucht zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ein klassisches Konzert und schläft mittendrin ein. Später bemerkt sie, dass es sich um Brahms »Wiegenlied« gehandelt hat - war sie vielleicht gar die einzige Person im Saal, die die Musik wirklich gehört hat? Eine ältere Frau sinniert über die ihrer Meinung nach zu Unrecht aufgegebene Praxis der Schrumpfköpfe - wie gerne würde sie zwölf Schrumpfköpfe ihrer Ahnen in einer Eierschachtel aufbewahren und sie gebührend erinnern. Eine Frau in den Wechseljahren dokumentiert die Unentrinnbarkeit des Verfalls beherzt in einem...

No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that's vital and welcome, that doesn't make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening...

" 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...

Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle's ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A high-quality replica of the original aged, delicate book in which Ruefle "erased" the text, this book will appeal to fans of poetry as well as visual art.

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...