Dunce - Rilegato

Ruefle, Mary

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ISBN 10: 1940696852 ISBN 13: 9781940696850

Casa editrice: Wave Books, 2019

Riassunto

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

A finalist for both the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award and a the LA Times Book Award, and longlisted for the National Book Award.

Through her many projects across numerous genres, Mary Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist, drawing many fans from around the world to her unique vision. With Dunce she returns to the practice that has always been at her core: the making of poems. With her startlingly fresh sensibility, she enraptures us in poem after poem by the intensity of her attention, with the imaginative flourishes of her being-in-the-world, which is always deep with mysteries, unexpected appearances, and abiding yearning.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce(Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award; My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She 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, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.

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Nixie

It began with a phone number.

Then a grocery list.

A postcard to a dead friend

and then a long letter

in the green hell of a long summer.

With queer little geometrical figures

in the margins.

Then winter came with the monstrosity

of a true artist, its snow didn’t know

whether to play Bach or Beethoven,

its light in a light all its own.

I called and called. I went shopping

but the black diamonds downtown

were not on sale, so I am writing

to tell you the ring you wanted

will have to wait, we are telling

stories around the brazier, it is

warm near the tripod and snug,

the hour makes a soft music

all its own, I wish more than anything

you were here beside us, and not

under the maple in Mr. Morioka’s garden.

I used to think everything had meaning—

and it does.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wave Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1940696852
• ISBN 13: 9781940696850
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 99
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile