http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/150025392913/the-most-of-it-by-mary-ruefleAfter recently listening to a couple of podcasts this past summer featuring Mary Ruefle I decided to give her poetry a try. For the record I confess to initially being more interested in her collected lectures [b:Madness, Rack,...
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/150025150323/selected-poems-by-mary-ruefle[a:Linda Gregg|248368|Linda Gregg|https://d2arxad8u2l0g7.cloudfront.net/authors/1451533066p2/248368.jpg] won the William Carlos Williams Award for Poetry in 2009. I am not aware of any other notable poet who has won this medal....
This was the first time I'd ever read Mary Ruefle. Just happened to pull the book off the shelf at the library, and really liked it. Her work feels like a combination of Sylvia Plath and James Tate. A sad frustratedness with how life is and humans are, with a thick layer of dreaminess-- the escape h...
Interesting, but I had hoped for more.
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