'Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and
her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic
virtuosity, and adventurousness.' — Tony Hoagland
Mary Ruefle has published ten books of poetry including a Selected Poems, as well as a book of
witty 'prose' (The Most of It) - both through Wave
Books - 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, and
published in A Little White
Shadow.
Most recently, her wise and effervescent collection of essays on
poetry and life, Madness, Rack, and Honey, earned her a
well-deserved shortlisting for this year's National Book Critics' Circle
Awards. The New York Times
reviewer declared Madness,
Rack, and Honey 'one of the wisest books I’ve read in years…it
would be a shame to think that only poets will read it.'
Mary Ruefle has been the recipient of numerous honours,
including the William Carlos Williams award, an Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She
currently lives in Vermont, teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont
College of Fine Arts and is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Venue: City Gallery Wellington
Date: Monday 15 April
Time: 12.15-1.15pm
Writers on Mondays
events are open to the public and free of charge. This event is presented by the International Institute of Modern Letters and City Gallery Wellington.
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