{"product_id":"trances-of-the-blast-9781933517735","title":"Trances of the Blast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it.\"--David Kirby, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence.\"--Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America, William Carlos Williams Award citation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/i\u003e is a major new collection from recent National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Mary Ruefle. Full of Ruefle's particular wisdom and wit, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts--its paradoxes, failures, and loss--and help us better appreciate its redeeming strangeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf only I'd understood that loneliness\u003cbr\u003ewas just loneliness, only loneliness\u003cbr\u003eand nothing more. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut I was blind.\u003cbr\u003eLittle did I know.\u003cbr\u003eIf only I'd invented salt.\u003cbr\u003eI might have died happy.\u003cbr\u003eI wish I loved you, \u003cbr\u003ebut you can't have everything.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award, 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. Her book of lectures, \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e, was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eDunce\u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2019), which is both a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award; \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2016); \u003cem\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2013); \u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; and \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, 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, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50516522729746,"sku":"9781933517735","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dd11b448-5ba5-4e84-a025-dae2579358ff.jpg?v=1754896821","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/trances-of-the-blast-9781933517735","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}