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Among the Musk Ox People: Poems
Book by Ruefle, Mary
- GenresPoetry
88 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2002
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About the author
Mary Ruefle
46 books434 followersMary 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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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.
For more information on this author, go to:
http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/50-...
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August 18, 2020
My favorite poems in this collection (i.e. ones that I love rereading and teaching) are the prose poem, "The Bench" and "Operation Candor."
December 16, 2025
Notable poems : On Tears, The Raft, Patina, 10 April, Against the Sky
March 15, 2013
My favorite one:
Full Moon
The white spot to the upper left
which looks like the pith plug
in a peeled orange is the crater Tycho.
I have never been there. Perhaps one day
you will. I saw many jackets in the coatroom
but none of them were his. I know someone
who is alive somewhere.
It is embarrassing to be alive.
Sometimes you have to stand out on the street
and look upwards, and then you have to pretend
the stone at your feet
is not an object of observation,
when it is.
Full Moon
The white spot to the upper left
which looks like the pith plug
in a peeled orange is the crater Tycho.
I have never been there. Perhaps one day
you will. I saw many jackets in the coatroom
but none of them were his. I know someone
who is alive somewhere.
It is embarrassing to be alive.
Sometimes you have to stand out on the street
and look upwards, and then you have to pretend
the stone at your feet
is not an object of observation,
when it is.
August 12, 2015
Mary Ruefle's work continues to strike a chord with me. I find myself texting photos of her poems to friends. Not something that I usually do. A few favorites: "Cum Grano Salis" and "'The Philosophy of the Astonished'" and "Patina" and "Full Moon" and "Hounds" and "The Bench" and...
January 31, 2009
Didn't like as much as I thought I would.
Here's one line I did like, though:
"They say dolls outlast all other forms of life"
Here's one line I did like, though:
"They say dolls outlast all other forms of life"
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