Most of It

Name: Most of It
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ISBN: 9781933517292

ISBN-10: 1933517298

ISBN-13: 9781933517292

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mary Ruefle

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"[Mary] Ruefle . . . brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world."-Charles Simic Fans of Lydia Davis and Miranda July will delight in this short prose from a beloved and cutting-edge poet. Here are thirty stories that deliver the soft touch and the sucker punch with stunning aplomb. Ducks, physicists, detectives, and The New York Times all make appearances. From "The Dart and the Drill": I do not believe that when my brother pierced my skull with a succession of darts thrown from across our paneled rec room on the night of November 18th in my sixth year on earth, he was trying to transcend the notions of time and space as…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Snow


Camp William


Suburb of Long Suffering


My Pet, My Clock


Hazeline


Lichen


A Glass of Water


Woman With a Yellow Scarf


The Bench


Monument


Beautiful Day


My Search Among the Birds


The Dart and the Drill


The Taking of Moundville by Zoom


Hard-Boiled Detective


What Woman


All My Roe


Peek-a-Moose


Sleep


A Certain Swirl


Ascribed This Day to the Affidavit


The Diary


The Most of It


A Romantic Poet and His Destiny


If All the World Were Paper


A Minor Personal Matter


On Twilight


University of the Limitless Mouse


Some Nondescript Autumn Weekend


A Half-Sketched Head


Acknowledgments