Selected Poems

"[Selected Poems ] offers readers a chance to catch on to one of the most distinctive talents of our time, one of the few who can genuinely startle. . . . Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."-Tony Hoagland of all things standing furthest from what is real, stand these trees shaking with dispensable joy . . . Mary Ruefle is the winner of the 2011 William Carlos Williams Award and has authored ten collections of poetry; The Most of It , a book of prose; and A Little White Shadow , a collection of erasures. She teaches at Vermont College.