Golden Crumbs - Mary Ruefle

Golden Crumbs - Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle

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Published 8 October 2026

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  • Pages · 264 pages
  • Publication Date · 08/10/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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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.�

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