{"product_id":"my-private-property-wave-books-61-9781940696386","title":"My Private Property (Wave Books  61)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor of Madness  Rack  and Honey (\"One of the wisest books Ive read in years \" according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast  Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property  comprised of short prose pieces  is a brilliant and charming display of her humor  deep imagination  mindfulness  and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young  a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly  over time  and taking great care in following esoteric instructions  including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard  I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness  Rack  and Honey: Collected Lectures  a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems  winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry  a book of prose (The Most of It)  and a comic book  Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors  including 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45658879688757,"sku":"ByrdShop_1940696380","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781940696386.jpg?v=1782137574","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/my-private-property-wave-books-61-9781940696386","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}