Mary Ruefle





Mary Ruefle

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Mary 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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Average rating: 4.26 · 782 ratings · 96 reviews · 15 distinct works
A Little White Shadow
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The Most of It
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Indeed I Was Pleased with t...
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Selected Poems
4.66 of 5 stars 4.66 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Cold Pluto
4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Post Meridian
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Tristimania
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Among the Musk Ox People
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Apparition Hill
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2001
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The Adamant
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions
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“Something unpronounceable
followed by a long silence
points out my life
is becoming a landscape.”
Mary Ruefle, The Adamant: Poems

“I like to read because
it kills me.”
Mary Ruefle

“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
Mary Ruefle

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