Trances of the Blast

Mary Ruefle will be present and giving readings, including a featured reading with Brenda Shaughnessy, at AWP in February, 2014. • We will be targeting high-profile media likely to pick up on a paperback release of Trances of the Blast, such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Review, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and literary publications such as Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Publishers Weekly, Coldfront, and others. • Advertising will appear in Bookforum. • Co-op available. • Ruefle has been interviewed twice on Bookworm by Michael Silverblatt, and two of her poems from Trances of the Blast have already been recorded on The Poetry Foundation website. • The magazine Music & Literature is dedicating an entire issue to Ruefle. It will include interviews with her, excerpts from her books, including Trances of the Blast, and essays about her work. • Ruefle will be reading and touring throughout the spring and summer of 2014 at conferences, schools, and festivals. • We will promote this title through emails to subscribers, academics, and bookstores, as well as through the availability of desk and complimentary copies to academics. There has already been some interest in teaching the hardcover of Trances of the Blast. Many professors are waiting for the paperback to be released, so we expect high academic sales for this edition. We will promote this book on Mary Ruefle's author page, through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and on our homepage.

Now in paperback, the most recent collection from celebrated poet Mary Ruefle--moving, authoritative, generous."We emerge from these poems, scathed and awakened."--Poetry "An excellent choice for any collection looking to expand poetry beyond the obvious."--Library Journal, starred review Trances of the Blast 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. From "Goodnight Irene": I think the tree is very much turned on I can feel its sticky sap rising in my eyes Its sticky sap is in my eyes I do not think the tree wishes it were dead I think the baby is very much turned on Look baby a birdie in the tree Say bye-bye birdie now go out and get a job My job is writing poems and reading them to a cloud Mary Ruefle 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, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was named a finalist for the National Books Critic Circle award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.