Dunce - Hardcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Ruefle is the author of many books, including Dunce(Wave Books, 2019), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and the LA Times Book Award; My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016), Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems (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.

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To find things out—

that is the great adventure!

To find out the writing on the birthday cake

was toothpaste.

To find out Musical Chairs

was for real.

Find out Lord made the world

then threw the leftover rocks

in a pile and left.

Nettles growing nearby

spliced themselves into

days—find it out!

Checkless griff. Bitter love.

Modern hell. Bloody tears.

Beneath an ordinary glance

dwells an explosive.

Go to market.

Find all this out,

find everything out.

Even if your last day is

incomplete, even if something up there

thinks you are marzipan,

keep finding out—

for the stork who dropped us off

in the wilderness returns,

but with a bigger maw this time

so he can accommodate us

and all that we have found out

even if the terriblest part

is so condensed

we bear a resemblance

to the night sky.