My Private Property - Mary Ruefle

Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has grown attracted to the other side. . . . She is not writing with a prescription, or at least not one for this earth. Nor is she celebrating the commonplace. She is concentrating on one thing at a time.-- New York Times The property that Ruefle deems private is the impalpable nature of the inner life we all share; it is at once ours and everyone's. . . . Ruefle has shown a talent for elevating her acute observations and narrative inclination well above mere anecdote to create quietly disquieting moments--a literature of barbed ambiguity and unresolved disruption. -- Bookforum Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey 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. Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including 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. 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.