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Trances Of The Blast (2013)

by Mary Ruefle(Favorite Author)

4.35 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1933517735 (ISBN13: 9781933517735)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Wave Books

review 1: I'm not done with the book yet, as I giddily jumped around after unwrapping it from the publisher--end, middle, and beginning, my own sneak previews, but now I have again started at the beginning--and am only on page 17, up through the poem "Middle School," the funniest serious poem I have read among thousands in a long time. I've read it five times now, each time it's funnier, funnier yet with more wine....Mary Ruefle and August Kleinzahler are doing more to inform and advance contemporary poetry than any other poets still on the oxygenated side of earth....thank you and goodnight!
review 2: Cheston Knapp (Managing editor of Tin House): I really hate it how some folks talk about poetry as though it were that flavor of jelly belly you carefully pick around, lik... moree buttered popcorn or jelly or, if they don’t have the gene (the Pleasure Gene), licorice. How they act like poetry is some course you can skip. As though it were not an entire fucking meal. So I’ve been dining out on some poetry. Read Mary Ruefle’s new collection, Trances of the Blast, which was like a hearty salad with fruit and foreign cheese in it, arugula and mixed berries with some semi-firm sheep’s feta. I want to take the menu home with me. Seriously, though, can’t recommend this book enough. Do your tummy a solid. less

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