Research Catalog

Title

Trances of the blast / Mary Ruefle.

Author

Ruefle, Mary, 1952-

Publication

• Seattle, Washington ; New York, New York : Wave Books, 2013.
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wave Books, publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

113 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Trances of the Blast 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."--www.Amazon.com.

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

American poetry – 21st century.

Note

• "Wave Books 038"--Dust jacket.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Saga -- Metaphysical blight -- Spikenard -- The estate of single blessedness -- Are we alone? Is it safe to speak? -- Le livre de ma vie -- En route -- Provenance -- Müller and me -- Middle school -- Fireworks -- College -- Mimosa -- Greetings my dear ghost -- The day -- New morning -- Receiving news of the devastation of my mind -- Donkey on -- Midsummer at Jefferson Slough -- Jaroslav -- Goodnight Irene -- Nite nite -- Marco Polo -- Little eternities -- Favorite song -- The afternoon according to Saint Matthew -- On velvet turf -- Paris by moonlight -- Albert Finney Agon -- Argot -- Helium -- Apologia -- Hold that thought -- Ars poetica -- Spider -- A custom of mourning -- Abdication -- A penny for your thoughts -- One world at a time -- Eric with the light brown hair -- Happy -- Jumping ahead -- Women in labor -- Shalimar -- Tomorrow will be beautiful -- The bunny gives us a lesson in eternity -- Open letter to my ancestors -- Sawdust -- Broken spoke -- Fall leaf studies -- Platonic -- Woodtangle -- Trances of the blast -- White buttons -- Faster love is all there is -- The seafood fanciers -- Calm, how darest thou wait -- The art of happiness -- For Carlos -- Literal -- Pipkins of the mimulus -- Up above -- Peridot -- Narrow road to the north -- Wings of love -- Dolorous interlude -- Rumors of Earth -- What went ye out into May to see? -- Bloodrood -- Q&A -- Sudden additional energy -- Poem written before I was born -- Elegy for a game -- With love & disregard -- Picking up pinecones.

ISBN

• 9781933517735 (hardcover: alkaline paper)
• 9781933517919 (pbk.)

LCCN

2012044382^^

OCLC

• 822972329
• SCSB-12064516

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library