Mary Ruefle

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Mary Ruefle
Language English
Nationality American
Genre Poetry
Notable awards National Book Award
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Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.[1] Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, in 2012, both published by Wave Books.[2] She has also published a book of erasures, A Little White Shadow (2006).[3]

She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review,[4] Verse Daily,[5] The Believer,[6] Harper's Magazine,[7] and The Kenyon Review,[8] and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).[9]

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1952,[10] but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College[9] in 1974 with a degree in literature. She teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[9] In 2011, she served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor[11] at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. In 2019, she was named poet laureate of the state of Vermont.[12]

Awards and honors

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

  • Dunce (Wave Books, 2019)
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  • Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013)
  • Selected Poems, 2010 (William Carlos Williams Award, 2011)
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  • Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
  • A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006)
  • Tristimania (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)
  • Apparition Hill (CavanKerry Press, 2002)
  • Among the Musk Ox People (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
  • Post Meridian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
  • Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996; Classic Contemporary version 2001)
  • The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989)
  • Life Without Speaking (University of Alabama Press, 1987)
  • Memling's Veil (University of Alabama Press, 1982)

Prose collections

Non-fiction

  • Madness, Rack, and Honey Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)

Essays

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Erasure

References

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  2. ↑ Mary Ruefle official website, featuring erasure work, maryruefle.com; accessed December 15, 2015.
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  4. ↑ The American Poetry Review>July/Aug 2002 Vol. 31/No. 4 Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, aprweb.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
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  8. ↑ Mary Ruefle: A Custom of Mourning (Spring 2009 • Vol. XXXI • No 2)[permanent dead link], kenyonreview.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
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  13. ↑ Profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed December 15, 2015.
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  16. ↑ Lannan Foundation: Past Residents Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, lannan.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
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