Selected Poems

"[Selected Poems] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."—Tony Hoagland

of all things standing furthest
from what is real, stand these trees
shaking with dispensable joy . . .

Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It, a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow, a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.

• Trances of the Blast
• Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
• My Private Property
• The Most of It
• Dunce
• On Imagination (Quarternote Chapbook Series)
• Deaf Republic: Poems
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets)
• The Tradition
• The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice