A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

Through her many projects across numerous genres, Ruefle has proven herself a singular artist, drawing many fans from around the world to her unique vision. With her startlingly fresh sensibility, she enraptures readers in poem after poem by the intensity of her attention, with the imaginative flourishes of her being-in-the-world, which is always deep with mysteries, unexpected appearances, and abiding yearning.

"Ruefle has shown a talent for elevating her acute observations and narrative inclination well above mere anecdote to create quietly disquieting moments—a literature of barbed ambiguity and unresolved disruption."—Albert Mobilio, Bookforum

"Straightforward in form, comic and companionable in tone, blessed with the Martian gift of seeing the strange in the ordinary and vice-versa. . . "—Joel Brouwer, Poetry

"Ruefle’s speakers muse in a very deliberate, declarative syntax in a lot of universalities, generalities, and absolutes, speaking often for all of us."—Adrien Blevins, Ploughshares

"For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience."—Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America

"[She is] a poet of visionary imagination, abiding sensitivity, and melancholy humor."—Publishers Weekly

"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, On the Seawall

"Ruefle is the Poet Laureate of the City of Ideas — surreal and lyrical and deeply moving at the same time."— Michael Klein, Los Angeles Review of Books