Life Without Speaking

by Mary Ruefle

Paperback poetry book

Genres: Poetry

89 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist. The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh in 1952, but spent her early life traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature.

Ruefle's work has been widely published in literary journals. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ruefle currently lives in New England. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College and is visiting faculty with the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Reviews

[Hans · Rating 3 out of 5]

The deep connection I found to Mary Ruefle's other work wasn't as strong in this volume. I started to find the connection in a few poems from the third section (like "Before an Enormous Building" and "Arson")...and the last poem ("Who Shall Have This") is a great finish. This won't be the last volume of her work that I read, but I would revisit other works before this one.