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$3000 marketing and publicity budget
Review copies available: national mailings
National print campaign, specifically targeting poetry publications
and those that have previously reviewed author
Advertising in Poets & Writers, Poetry, and Writers Chronicle
Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to contacts on Sarabande
database
Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande
national listserve as well as review copy mailing to online
journals and blogs
Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Robert Creeley Award, 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, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.
"Through her unique blend of anecdotes and meditations upon
subjects ranging from John Keats to Jesus to the Ukrainian art of
Easter egg dyeing, Ruefle manages to demonstrate that the act of
writing is much more than the solitary task it can sometimes feel
like—it is a collaboration between yourself and the world."
—Poets & Writers, "Best Books for Writers"
“[She is] a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and
melancholy humor.”
—Publishers Weekly
“In her recent work, Ruefle can seem like a supernally well-read
person who has grown bored with what smartness looks like, and has
grown attracted to the other side.... She is not writing with a
prescription, or at least not one for this earth.”
—The New York Times
“No writer...comes close to even trying to articulate the weird
magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates the
odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both
guard and reveal, hint at and pull back.... Also, and maybe most
crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she
writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital
and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but
wild, strange, life-enlargening fun.”
—Kenyon Review
“Ruefle has shown a talent for elevating her acute observations and
narrative inclination well above mere anecdote to create quietly
disquieting moments—a literature of barbed ambiguity and unresolved
disruption.”
—Bookforum
“Ruefle is the Poet Laureate of the City of Ideas — surreal and
lyrical and deeply moving at the same time.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Ruefle’s speakers muse in a very deliberate, declarative syntax in
a lot of universalities, generalities, and absolutes, speaking
often for all of us.”
—Ploughshares
“As a verbal hunter-gatherer, Ruefle is a barometer of our lyric
listening. Her poems are sieves of consciousness, catching
strangeness and mundanity, the overheard and the under the
breath...Ruefle reminds us how odd, synthetic, and arduous it
is—the pursuit of this transmission of verbal fact and form. If you
want to know how an early 21st-century lyric poem gets made, and
how it is tethered to the rhetorics and resources of its time and
place, start here.”
—Boston Review
“Mary Ruefle is, in this humble bookseller’s opinion, the best
prose-writing poet in America.”
—Literary Hub
"[I] tore through [On Imagination] in a single sitting – during
which I took notes, underlined generously, and paused to marvel at
how her written experiences were so spot on. . . . I strongly
advise teaching this essay if that’s your profession."
—Hyype, "use your noodle: On Imagination"
“For more than thirty years, [Mary Ruefle] has freshened American
poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward
experience.”
—Poetry Society of America
“Mary Ruefle’s careful, measured sentences sound as if they were
written by a thousand-year-old person who is still genuinely
curious about the world.... [She] combine[s] imagistic techniques
from surrealism with narrative techniques to create surprising,
high-velocity, and deeply affecting work. This aesthetic has
spawned many imitators and variations, but her style is
unmistakable.”
—The Stranger
“I might say us dreamers have gotten ahold of the essay form. I
might speak about how Mary Ruefle’s prose explores the varied
experience of singular feeling, feelings within feeling, braiding
feelings, feeling slipping into other feelings, feelings inflecting
feeling, feeling chasing feeling.... I might talk about how Mary
Ruefle’s prose makes you laugh aloud, and, in the same beat, breaks
your heart.”
—Essay Daily
"Thank goodness for Mary Ruefle, who continues to produce strange,
perfectly unexpected sentences like, 'I don’t like artificial
flowers, but when they look real I fall in love with them,' and
'Artists are just people who have not forgotten how to draw.' A
delightful, restless exploration of the meaning of imagination,
complete with goats, pie, and Wittgenstein."
—Harvard Book Store
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