Mary Ruefle is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Indeed I Was Pleased With The World (Carnegie Mellon, 2007). Her first collection of fiction, The Most of It, is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2008. Her poems and prose appear in many anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, and The Next American Essay. She lives in Southern Vermont.
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Download a podcast of Mary reading here, or watch a video online here.
Read two poems on Fence: "The Great Loneliness", and "The Great Tragedy of Joy".
reviews of Mary Ruefle's work:
Ellen Wernecke — 05/28/2008
Publishers Weekly — 02/04/2008
Octopus Magazine — 01/01/2007
Stride Magazine, Rupert Loydell — 05/20/2006