Keeping It Simple
Mary Ruefle, “Keeping It Simple” from memling’s veil, published by University of Alabama Press. Copyright © 1982 by Mary Ruefle. Reprinted by permission of the author.
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Poet Mary Ruefle b. 1952
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Biography
Though poet and essayist Mary Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh, she spent her youth moving around the United States and Europe with her military family.
She has written numerous books of poetry, including Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007) and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. A Little White Shadow (2006), her book of erasures—found texts in which all but a few words have been erased from the . . .
Poems by Mary Ruefle
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POET’S REGION U.S., New England
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