{"product_id":"on-imagination-paperback","title":"On Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea, Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. The chapbook features original interior illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrances of the Blast\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2013), \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose (\u003ci\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/i\u003e, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, \u003ci\u003eGo Home and Go to Bed!\u003c\/i\u003e, (Pilot Books\/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and published in \u003ci\u003eA Little White Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle 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, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 32\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.7 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 25, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700453347391,"sku":"9781941411476","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4d6f67db1d34b1af0a63248a1046d6cc.webp?v=1765016803","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/on-imagination-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}