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She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eMy Private Property\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016), \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 also published a comic book, \u003ci\u003eGo Home and Go to Bed!\u003c\/i\u003e (Pilot Books\/Orange Table Comics, 2007), and is 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, where she serves as the state's poet laureate.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mary Ruefle \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47401508044957,"sku":"9798891060043","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_1ebdf799-9758-4470-a4b4-befdfa641596.jpg?v=1762924810"},{"product_id":"jane-austen-a-life-9780143035169","title":"Jane Austen: A Life","description":"With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In \u003cb\u003eJane Austen\u003c\/b\u003e, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics \u003cb\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eEmma\u003c\/b\u003e. 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