"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.