On Imagination (eBook)

Mary Ruefle (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
32 Seiten
Sarabande Books (Verlag)
978-1-946448-02-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From religion to poetry to museum exhibitions, an inquiry into imagination's manifestations by acclaimed poet Mary Ruefle.

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"It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. The chapbook features original interior illustrations.

Mary Ruefle is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, including Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

Autor

Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle 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, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Quarternote Chapbook Series
• Reihe/Serie: Quarternote Chapbook Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: anecdotes and meditations • collection of essays • creative mind • Emily Dickson • Illustrations • insightful • inspiration from Wittgenstein • Jesus • John Keats • Johnny Cash • meaning of Imagination • melancholy humor • Sensitivity • Shakespeare • Steve Jobs, • Ukrainian art of Easter egg dyeing
• ISBN-10: 1-946448-02-8 / 1946448028
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946448-02-6 / 9781946448026