Dunce ‐ Mary Ruefle

BookNotes author: [[ Mary Ruefle ]]

Poetry collection

• Strange images and metaphors uniting the poems in grief and aging. The collection explores the beauty of living, but also the inevitablity of death.
• A focus on the details of the natural world to illuminate a great melancholy, but also joy.
• Turns of phrases like speech throughout, that are then twisted.