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My Private Property
My Private Property | Mary Ruefle
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.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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sakeriver
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‪This is the first book of Ruefle‘s I‘ve read, and I think what I wasn‘t prepared for—though I probably should have been—is how funny parts of this book would be. While other parts inspired existential panic? Really enjoyed it, overall.

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sakeriver
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Next (waiting at the Toronto Airport)

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GatheringBooks
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Shade(s) of various colours and their poetic essays as seen in Ruefle‘s collection. This one here resonated with me.

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GatheringBooks
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Mehso-so

Read the entire book today upon the insistence of my psychologist mentor who has now retired in Tunisia. She claims that Ruefle has parallels with Mary Oliver, only better. I disagree. Ruefle is a bit more cerebral, with decided attempts at profundity stabbing at light and darkness. I especially loved her shades of sadness more than the other essays found in this collection. Will still try to read her other titles which may resonate more with me.

Cinfhen Review is wonderful but I‘m curious about your lunch?? 😂😂😘 6y
GatheringBooks @Cinfhen hahhaa! it‘s from a fast food chain here in singapore called wingstop. we had the louisiana voodoo fries and boneless chicken in diff flavours. Our fave is called Kecap Manis which is “Indonesian sweet soy sauce paired with chilli flakes” and Louisiana Rub which is “a dry rub of cayenne pepper and garlic spices.” Yum. Addicting. 6y
Cinfhen Yum!!!! Thanks for sharing looks delish 😋 6y
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tholmz
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Completely taken by these words. You‘d be remiss to not make it to the acknowledgments, where Mary Ruefle makes a distinct observation about the difference between happiness and sadness.

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Kenny
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My Favorite Books of 2016

No. 5: My Private Property by Mary Ruefle. Everything she does is perfect, unperfectly so. Poems, no, essays, no—all of life.

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Kenny
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Is this my favorite book of the year? Maybe. It's up there.

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Kenny
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Every new Mary Ruefle book is a cause for celebration and something completely other. The form is new. The ideas are new. These aren't poems. These aren't essays. These are observations, small things about the bigness of being human.

Kenny Mary Ruefle is one of my very favorite writers. She stands by herself. I think she invented originality. 8y
Orbeck33 You're convinced me! 8y
beccaeve I heard her speak and read at a writing conference last month. She was incredible! I need to read everything by her. 8y
BrianSpears Just got a copy of this. It's sitting on my desk. Can't wait to dive in. 8y
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