{"product_id":"golden-crumbs","title":"Golden Crumbs","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"summary\" class=\"entry-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eIn 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. Gathering three collections of prose – The Most of It, My Private Property and The Book – Golden Crumbs is essential reading from ‘the best prose-writing poet in America’ (Literary Hub).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"read_more_content\" class=\"entry-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e‘Mary Ruefle is the kind of poet who can make Tupperware seem transcendent… [t]he charm of her poems is perhaps their most palpable quality. She can nonchalantly finish a poem with the words “bye-bye”, as though that were the way all poems secretly end. She is a poet about whom fans say things like: “Somehow Mary Ruefle has nuzzled her way into my heart, soul, mind.” And: “I love you. Where have you always been? Will you stay?”’ \u003cbr\u003e— Emily Berry, author of Unexhausted Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e‘The Book explores the bittersweetness of getting older…. In a whirlwind of people and places, Vermont’s solitude-loving poet laureate paints a pictured of a life lived in the company of many others.’\u003cbr\u003e— Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mary Ruffle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57369559499130,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0003\/6778\/8068\/files\/BB50BA52-B6E8-4104-BE9E-38424E275401.jpg?v=1791461333","url":"https:\/\/raremags.co.uk\/products\/golden-crumbs","provider":"Rare Mags","version":"1.0","type":"link"}