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"I offer my dinner guest, after dinner, the choice between regular and decaf coffee, when in fact I don’t have any decaf in the house. I am so sincere in my effort to be a good host that I lie; I think this probably happens all the time in poetry.

You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that."

—Mary Ruefle, from "Kangaroo Beach" in Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012)

It’s about intrinsic loneliness like, a loneliness that feels like coming home

Lesbians x Kitchen

Dickinson (2019-21)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

The World to Come (2020)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

The World Unseen (2007)

@endelighus

Rosie the Cow Plush //  PlanetBunnie

"You might say a poem is a semicolon, a living semicolon, what connects the first line to the last, the act of keeping together whose nature is to fly apart. Between the first and last lines there exists—a poem—and if it were not for the poem that intervenes, the first and last lines of a poem would not speak to each other. 

Would not speak to each other. Because the lines of a poem are speaking to each other, not you to them or they to you."

—Mary Ruefle, from "On Beginnings" in Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012)

California, 1974

Photo: Bernard Plossu

benmyhre

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