The Book

By: Mary Ruefle

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Hardcover | 1 January 2024

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96 Pages

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13.9 x 20.3 x 1.2

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Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle's latest prose publication The Book.

True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle's legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) 'the patron saint of childhood and the everyday.' With the same curiosity found in Madness, Rack, and Honey and My Private Property, Ruefle's prose here feels both omniscient and especially intimate. 'It seems I believe in a bygone world though I no longer live there,' she writes. 'Will I continue to read about all that is dusty?'

In the spirit of friendship, Ruefle generously invites us to query ourselves as readers and thinkers in a world that will eventually endure without us.

'Straightforward in form, comic and companionable in tone, blessed with the Martian gift of seeing the strange in the ordinary and vice-versa...' - Joel Brouwer, Poetry

'Ruefle's speakers muse in a very deliberate, declarative syntax in a lot of universalities, generalities, and absolutes, speaking often for all of us.'- Adrien Blevins, Ploughshares

Industry Reviews

Straightforward in form, comic and companionable in tone, blessed with the Martian gift of seeing the strange in the ordinary and vice-versa... -Joel Brouwer, Poetry

Ruefle's speakers muse in a very deliberate, declarative syntax in a lot of universalities, generalities, and absolutes, speaking often for all of us. -Adrien Blevins, Ploughshares

For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience. -Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America

[She is] a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor. -Publishers Weekly

Ruefle is the Poet Laureate of the City of Ideas - surreal and lyrical and deeply moving at the same time. - Michael Klein, Los Angeles Review of Books

They record small moments with sweeping scope, moments in which the speed of thought seems to outpace real time. -- Elisa Gabbert, The New York Times

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