Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast and Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose and a comic book, and is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont. Her latest book is My Private Property.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Mistaken | State of Mind
Mary Ruefle
‘I take it, if only as a substitute for my unknown name’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Pause
Mary Ruefle
‘Nothing can prepare you for this.’ Mary Ruefle on menopause.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 140
Lullaby
Mary Ruefle
‘I wasn’t bored, I was relaxed, and, I suppose, happy (I’ve never been able to figure out how happiness feels).’