“It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea,” Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. This chapbook features original interior illustrations.

Though poet and essayist Mary Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh, she spent her youth moving around the United States and Europe with her military family. She has written numerous books of poetry, including My Private Property (2016), Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007), and The Adamant (1989), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012). A Little White Shadow (2006), her book of erasures—found texts in which all but a few words have been erased from the page—reveals what Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called “haiku-like mini-fables, sideways aphorisms, and hauntingly perplexing koans.” Ruefle’s erasures are available to view on her website; a full-colour facsimile of her erasure Incarnation of Now was published in a limited edition by See Double Press.

1 – On Imagination – Mary Ruefle (Sarabande Books, July 2017)

2 – Wavering Words – R. Pursell (Independently published, 2019)

3 – Sherlock Holmes: A Flash In The Pan – William Meikle (Independently published)

4 – The Horror at Briar Academy – Noah Patterson (Independently published, 2020)

5 – The Florida Skunk Ape – Jacob Desjarlais (Independently published, 2020)

6 – Dark Astral: Grim & Perilous Chapbook – Daniel D Fox (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2020)

7 – Beyond: Three Sigils and Totems stories – William Meikle (Independently published, 2020)

8 – The Maze To My Heart – Alexis M Romo (Alexis Monique Romo, 2020)

9 – The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems – Nicole Sealey (Northwestern University Press, 2016)

10 – If It Bleeds – Matthew M. Bartlett (Nightscape Press, 2019)