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Tuesday, October 22nd, 5:15 p.m.
the Rita Blitt Gallery, Washburn University
“Wry and rue---it sounds like the recipe for a craft cocktail.
But those are really the main ingredients in Ruth Maus’s sly wise and expansive
book . . . Most of her poems are short—and a lot bigger than they seem, poems
marked by gallows humor and a poker face, and with just a twitch of a tell that
reveals how much lies beneath their surface.”
-- Michael Gorra, author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry
James and the Making of an American
Masterpiece
“Witty and contemporary, Maus’s poems are an energetic
delight. She seems to blend the magic of the folk tale with the cutting crackle
and static of modern life. The results are like blasts from the radio, when you
turn the dial—each unique, each with something different to say.”
--Kevin Rabas, author of Like Buddha-Calm Bird, Poet
Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019
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