Selected Poems (Wave Books)
When you hear Mary Ruefle reading her poems, you will quickly become entranced by their accessibility: they are funny and heartbreaking—simultaneously. We talk about her "erasure" process, in which a poem is "found" by using white-out on a pre-existing page of text. Then, we tackle the million dollar question. Can she be a poet all the time, every moment, every day?
Mary Ruefle: Selected Poems
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