GOLDEN CRUMBS

In Golden Crumbs Mary Ruefle a master of the absurd aphorism and philosophical curio shows us ancient anchovies poets aspiring to be birds a cryalogue powdered glass for dinner friends who don t read your poems lovers big houses blue houses big mountains and more in a voice that is irreverent philosophical inimitable world making and world breaking The kinship between people animals and landscapes is lightly thoughtfully crisply rendered with emotional depths that she drops through with ease like a penny in a well These texts are fun funny moving melancholic and full of games Ruefle s voice and style enacting a playful magic that allows us to query art and ourselves in equal measure Bringing together for the first time three of Mary Ruefle s collections of prose The Most of It My Private Property and The Book Golden Crumbs is a first UK publication for one of America s greatest living poets and essayists