{"product_id":"the-most-of-it-paperback","title":"The Most of It - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Mary] Ruefle . . . brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.\"--Charles Simic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFans 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 \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e all make appearances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"The Dart and the Drill\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI 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 contained and protected by the human skull. But who can fathom the complexities of the human brain? Ten years later--this would have been in 1967--the New York Times reported a twenty-four year old man, who held an honor degree in law, died in the process of using a dentist's drill on his own skull, positioned an inch above his right ear, in an attempt to prove that time and space could be conquered . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e's poems and prose have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Next American Essay\u003c\/i\u003e. Her many awards include NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. She is a frequent visiting professor at the University of Iowa, and she lives and teaches in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of many books, including \u003cem\u003eDunce\u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award; \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2016), \u003cem\u003eTrances of the Blast \u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2013), \u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), which was the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She 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, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.46 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524559212793,"sku":"9781933517292","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/xRUH4LlFyf9781933517292.webp?v=1790182245","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-most-of-it-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}