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Mary Ruefle

(1952) Poet United States

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Mary Ruefle is a poet from the United States, best known for The most of it.

Quick Facts About Mary Ruefle

Born
April 16, 1952
Nationality
United States
Profession
Poet
Notable works
The most of it

About Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce, was long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. Ruefle has also published prose, with her debut collection, The Most Of It, released in 2008. A book of her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was released in 2012, and she published her most recent prose work, The Book, in 2023. Ruefle is known for experimenting with erasure poetry and published an erasure book, A Little White Shadow, in 2006. From 2019 to 2024, she served as the Poet Laureate of Vermont.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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