{"product_id":"9781933517919","title":"Trances of the Blast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"We emerge from these poems, scathed and awakened.\"— \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An excellent choice for any collection looking to expand poetry beyond the obvious.\"— \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e , starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/i\u003e is a major new collection from beloved and award-winning poet Mary Ruefle. Full of the peculiarity and wit characteristic of Ruefle's work, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts—its paradoxes, failures, and loss—and help us to better appreciate its redeeming strangeness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Goodnight Irene\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eI think the tree is very much turned on\u003cbr\u003eI can feel its sticky sap rising in my eyes\u003cbr\u003eIts sticky sap is in my eyes\u003cbr\u003eI do not think the tree wishes it were dead\u003cbr\u003eI think the baby is very much turned on\u003cbr\u003eLook baby a birdie in the tree\u003cbr\u003eSay bye-bye birdie now go out and get a job\u003cbr\u003eMy job is writing poems and reading them to a cloud\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams 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. Her book of lectures, \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e , was named a finalist for the National Books Critic Circle award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061406023920,"sku":"9781933517919","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933517919_p0.jpg?v=1763641042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933517919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}