{"title":"Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-most-of-it","title":"The Most of It","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/mary-ruefle\"\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe paperback edition of this title is currently sold out. It will be back in stock soon.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelectable fables with questionable morals—sweet and sharp and over too soon. These thirty stories deliver the soft touch and the sucker punch with stunning aplomb. Ducks, physicists, detectives, and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e all make appearances. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e By turns droll, witty, heartfelt, and fanciful the pieces in \u003cem\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/em\u003e, whatever you choose to call them, offer something for every taste and temperament, which seems only fitting for a book that is dedicated “TO YOU.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/microreview-mary-ruefle-the-most-of-it-kathleen-rooney\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKathleen Rooney, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuefle...has created in \u003cem\u003eThe Most Of It\u003c\/em\u003e a deceptively complicated collection of episodes easy to get into, and precisely captivating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-most-of-it,2940\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEllen Wernecke, \u003cem\u003eOnion AV Club\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection showcases Ruefle’s considerable lyrical powers and memorable flights of fancy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes this so funny is that the obviously insane theme is presented deadpan, as an essay, with a logically developed (and screwily persuasive) argument. The fatuousness of the idea is balanced against the determined intelligence of the logic. But the logical order is intrinsically a narrative as well, because Ruefle’s sense of language and character is so vivid that the real fascination of the story comes from imagining the person who would create this piece of prose and the events that led to its creation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/journal\/article.html?id=236662\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBrian Phillips, \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“... Despite having published ten books of poetry, Ruefle has cultivated a style that is resolutely idiosyncratic and outsiderish without seeming bitter or alienated.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkreview.org\/reviews\/mary-ruefle-the-most-of-it.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSink Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately what makes Ruefle herself is not her control of the long sentence but her tone. There is an innocence that is almost hard to believe, so rare is it in contemporary poetry. Ruefle’s characteristic speaker looks at the world with fresh eyes, maintains a childlike relationship to life, untainted by irony or cynicism or bitterness. It is easy to dismiss this view of the world as naive or sentimental or merely “charming” or “eccentric,” but to do so is to miss the poetic philosophy behind it. Ruefle is a perfect exemplar of Keats’s negative capability, one who stays within “uncertainties, mysteries and doubts” about the world without any “irritable reaching after fact \u0026amp; reason.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Koo, \u003cem\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many pieces that are peculiar, but lovely, flash-fiction or story-poem hybrids...These very short pieces are like butter mints wrapped in jeweled cellophane. Each is excruciatingly lovely, but it dissolves quickly as the page turns. Readers, however are not saddened by this ephemeral nature for Ruefle’s style is so manifold, every turn summons something new.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eValerie Pell, \u003cem\u003eThird Coast \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am surprised by Mary...that her 2008 publication, \u003cem\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/em\u003e, is neither lyric nor narrative in the conventional sense. While some of the poems (“The Bench,” for example, is reprinted) bear the trace of the lyric I\/eye whose genius is the ability to articulate the movement of the mind from uncertainty to transcendence, the majority of these prose poems resist closure, celebrate multiplicity, speak at a skewed angle from the familiar, and address language’s failures to ever fully grasp all of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonhound.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/emily-carr-on-mary-ruefle.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEmily Carr, \u003cem\u003eLemon Hound\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: June 1, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781933517292 (5x8.5 80pp, paperback)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781933517308 (5x8.5 80pp, limited edition hardcover)\u003cbr\u003eISBN# 9781950268276 (e-book*)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Ruefle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":196870892,"sku":"9781933517292","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Limited Edition Hardcover","offer_id":196870902,"sku":"9781933517308","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":50255103459632,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/mostofit.jpg?v=1328837387"},{"product_id":"nine-worthies","title":"Nine Worthies","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003cspan\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/caroline-knox\"\u003eCaroline Knox\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003eDesc\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab4\"\u003eMore\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\" id=\"tab1\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e \u003c!--DESC--\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Nine Worthies are men and women in Boston and Newport in 1756. Nathaniel Smibert (1734-1756) is painting their portraits.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis hand-sewn limited edition has a letterpress cover and design influenced by 18th century typesetting and binding techniques. Told in nine individual portraits, interwoven with the perspective of the artist, \u003cem\u003eNine Worthies\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning book from eminent poet Caroline Knox. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD OUT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!--END DESC--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e Snappy bright, linguistically athletic, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, [Knox’s] poems nevertheless hold a depth at the core of their whimsy. She casts a keen eye on humankind across the centuries, but it is not an unkind one. Her latest book is, well, rather hard to describe. Or maybe not hard to describe, just hard to codify, to place within the framework of contemporary publishing. But it is indeed an intriguing, strangely captivating thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOpen Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Worthies\u003c\/em\u003e is an interesting step back into the 18th century viewed through a modern perspective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenee Emerson, \u003cem\u003eNew Pages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these poems, the many voices that emerge seem eager not so much to communicate, though their utterances are contained formally within a communicative mode, but to come into being as they speak. Knox’s poems make visible what we all experience abstractly: that language is fluid and that, like most living systems with which we interact, it makes us as we make it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Eggers, \u003cem\u003eThe The Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c!--END BIO--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab4\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--MORE--\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"The End of Something: Nine Worthies and Some Paintings by Nathaniel Smibert\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Worthies\u003c\/em\u003e, a work of prose and poetry operating as a sort of historical novella, deals with the life and times of Nathaniel Smibert (1734-1756), portrait painter and son of America’s first portraitist, John Smibert (1688-1751). The father had come to America from England in 1729 with George Berkeley the philosopher, in a utopian scheme to found a theological college in Bermuda. The scheme never worked out, John Smibert stayed in Boston to paint, and his son Nathaniel followed the calling of painter. Their studio acted as the art school and museum for America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNathaniel painted a great many works between 1750 and 1756 and then he died suddenly at age 22; no one knows how or why. (Lead poisoning? An epidemic off a ship? Tuberculosis?) He carefully followed his father’s style and content, in the English tradition of Lely and Kneller. The studio went on to become a gathering-place for the onset of Romantic painting: Copley, Trumbull, West, the Peales, many others. So the early death of Nathaniel was The End of Something, the end of part of America’s Englishness, at least in painting. And the Worthies, as they spout their notions, are unaware that much is changing, that they are on the cusp of both the Seven Years’ War and the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs far as we know, Nathaniel didn’t leave a notebook, so there’s no record of how many portraits there were. To write something about the period and subject, I had to choose a group and a number of characters, so I took the Nine from the medieval tradition of the Nine Worthies. The list depended on who the list-maker thought was worthy -- Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, King Arthur? I picked sitters showing a diverse crowd, such as the elderly widow Mary Davie, Peter Harrison the architect, and Samson Occum the Mohegan missionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch historical and art historical research has been done on the Smiberts. Maybe we won’t learn more, or not much more. Curiously, this fact made the writing assignment very inviting to me -- a subject with lots of holes in it, a theme with huge gaps. It felt modernist and post-modernist. \u003cem\u003eNine Worthies\u003c\/em\u003e is an experiment: facts and transitions are left out not because I was avoiding them or despising them, but because I didn’t even have them. But the facts that we do have about the subject fit together well. It’s the Age of Reason, of information, exploration, the Royal Society, the scientific method. (And it’s the Age of Satire, of giving it and receiving it.) The Worthies are obsessed with the past, with ancestors and family connections, and with material culture and money.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaroline Knox\u003cbr\u003eFall 2010\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c!--END MORE--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: September 15, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781933517483 (7x10.5 64pp, limited edition paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Caroline Knox","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Paperback","offer_id":196874432,"sku":"9781933517483","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/products\/nineworthies.jpg?v=1417559600"},{"product_id":"letters-to-wendys","title":"Letters to Wendy’s","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003c!--AUTHOR AND PAGE DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/authors\/products\/joe-wenderoth\"\u003eJoe Wenderoth\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!--END DETAILS--\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca class=\"active\" href=\"#tab1\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"#tab2\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"#tab3\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab1\" class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--DESCRIPTION--\u003e “A work of genius.” —\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters to Wendy’s\u003c\/i\u003e is an outrageous, tragic, genre-bending novel written over the course of a year on comment cards from the fast-food chain restaurant Wendy’s. 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Like Chekhov and Bruno Schultz, Tate seems both awed and bemused by small town life, with its legends, flights of fancy, heightened emotions, tragedies and small ruptures in the fabric of ordinary existence. Tate’s narrators are gleeful, peripatetic, dry, mundane, clueless, witty, and self-pitying; in their slightly odd, yet totally recognizable American idiom, they reveal a skewed, yet all the more familiar middle America. \u003c!--END DESCRIPTION--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--REVIEWS--\u003e Tate brings a poet’s touch to the short stories in this astounding and bizarre collection, which reflects the writer’s flair for black humor and absurdity as he explores the nooks and crannies of ordinary life. Tate is a blunt, sharp narrator who takes his stories in unexpected directions, and his talent for brevity surfaces in the many short-short entries that pack a powerful conceptual wallop in the space of a few pages ... fiction lovers who come to this book with an open mind will find themselves challenged and entertained by a brilliant writer with a very fertile imagination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese characters are not writers in disguise; they’re real people, their language is real, and their tales have a kind of stealth lyricism. These are stories only in the sense that they are narratives: plot is just a sheen, their soul is poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike forty-four test tubes, these stories contain a series of meticulously prepared chemistry experiments... Tate, the long-acclaimed poet, uses a disarmingly pedestrian voice to lure the reader to a place of bizarre poignancy. He makes eccentricity look good, as a poet should.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBitterness, amusement, bemusement--you know things will end badly with this beginning: “She had placed the turkey in the garage two days before Thanksgiving, just as she had for years without any untoward consequence.” The consequences of decisions made by and about Tate’s characters are unexpected, often sad, sometimes sweet, always engaging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarilyn Dahl, \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen he turns to prose, this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet exhibits a surprisingly uncomplicated style. The reissue of his 2002 short story collection includes 44 oddly moving tales about vacationing spies, sour video-store managers and creepy, gynecologists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Hodler, \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stories describe the natural tension between chaos and order in existence more accurately than the linear narrative of traditional prose ... It’s original, vibrant, accessible, and challenging. Some day a number of these stories will become part of another masterpiece of literature: the selected works of James Tate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosh Cook, \u003ci\u003e Bookslut \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe may find the messy relationships and personal shortfalls to be the stuff of everyday life, but Tate’s language makes each of them hyper-real. Though we may not quite understand a narrator’s epiphany when phrased as “my husband is the raven of dawn,” we can understand her (and Tate’s) quest to make meaning out of nonsense-perhaps ultimately the very point of “everyday life.” Tate details such simultaneously obscure and lucid moments eloquently, almost expertly-and for that we can only say beep. 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While each story is a standalone, the collection amounts to an intricate whole, as themes, objects, and even characters recur, encouraging readers to enjoy the book sequentially. Regardless of how it is enjoyed, \u003cem\u003eProses\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a satire of the world of contemporary poetry and publishing and a celebration of that world's fantastic and infinite imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli id=\"tab2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCheck back soon for more reviews!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"publication\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication month: May 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN# 9781950268979 (5.25x7.75, 201pp, paperback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Garrett Caples","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46963085934896,"sku":"9781950268979","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/1312\/files\/9781950268979_FC.jpg?v=1697493496"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.wavepoetry.com\/collections\/fiction\/fiction.oembed","provider":"Wave Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}