Poem of the Week | November 13, 2012
Mary Ruefle: "True to Life Also"
This week we’ve dug up a haunting lyric by acclaimed American poet, essayist and professor, Mary Ruefle. This poem dates back to 1982, the “blackberry” issue 5.3. Ruefle has won many major awards and fellowships. Her most recent poetry collection is Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010). She also has a collection of prose, The Most Of It, and a new collection of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey (Wave Books, 2012).
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