Trances of the Blast

Trances of the Blast PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517913
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle—moving, authoritative, generous.

Trances of the Blast

Trances of the Blast PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517913
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle—moving, authoritative, generous.

Language of the Senses

Language of the Senses PDF Author: Kerry McSweeney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773517400
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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In this stimulating and original analysis of some of the most important nineteenth-century poems in English, Kerry McSweeney offers an alternative to non-referential and New Historicist critical methods.

My Private Property

My Private Property PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 195026825X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) 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 in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of 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. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. 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 and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517565
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Madness, Rack, and Honey PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933517575
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

A Little White Shadow

A Little White Shadow PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517034
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Book Description
An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

Indeed I was Pleased with the World

Indeed I was Pleased with the World PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Post Meridian

Post Meridian PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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There's a line in a Mary Ruefle poem which speaks of the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. How accurate, we think as we read her. In poems striking for their vivid, playful, and original use of the imagination, she brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.

Dunce

Dunce PDF Author: Mary Ruefle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940696997
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

Hallucinations

Hallucinations PDF Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307402193
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication--even, for many people, by falling sleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms. At a higher level, hallucinations associated with the altered states of consciousness that may come with sensory deprivation or certain brain disorders can lead to religious epiphanies or conversions. Drawing on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions, Oliver Sacks investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations, what they say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all.