{"product_id":"my-private-property-9781940696515","title":"My Private Property","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Ruefle is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2013), \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (\u003ci\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/i\u003e, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, \u003ci\u003eGo Home and Go to Bed!\u003c\/i\u003e, (Pilot Books\/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of \u003ci\u003eA Little White Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2006). 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627118334226,"sku":"9781940696515","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0971e4ed-b8a3-49ae-84b0-2910136ab830.jpg?v=1756201806","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-private-property-9781940696515","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}