Research Catalog

Title

Indeed I was pleased with the world / by Mary Ruefle.

Author

Ruefle, Mary, 1952-

Publication

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

78 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• American poetry > 21st century

Contents

The day the earth stood still -- Cassandra -- Silence of the lambs -- Wants to be an artist -- Speak, zero -- Sermonette -- English -- Seen through binoculars -- Be kind to the reader -- An American comet -- Storm window -- Permanent loan -- O Canada -- Almanac -- The feather -- The meal that was always there -- Hope -- Little questions -- Kiss of the sun -- That is the question -- Lines written on the vast difference -- My corsage -- Adding color -- The tenor of your yes -- On the beach -- A picture of Christ -- On the benefit to be had from bells -- Darke body of clowds -- Pandemonium -- I came across the living one night -- She will one day long silent be -- Sweet morning -- Nativity -- Creche -- Revenant -- To be mimed -- Peccadillo -- Pontiac -- Prosody -- How I became impossible -- Infant of few words -- Guess what else is really sad? -- Good morning Charlotte Mew -- The imperial ambassador of the infinite -- The first three minutes -- My happiness -- Grief -- In the belly of the wind -- Thirteen -- Esther's idea -- As a man thinketh -- My timid eternity -- After a rain -- Me too -- A letter that never reached me -- Gathered on a friday in the hour of jupiter -- Days of Spanish salad -- Sad lavender -- Celery -- Kettle -- Lost horse -- Quick note about the think source -- Something of a tractate -- Lines written on a blank space -- Lullaby -- The refrigerator.

ISBN

• 0887484670
• 9780887484674

OCLC

• ocn123894704
• 123894704
• SCSB-5360475

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries