Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is the author of Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry, forthcoming from Seven Stories Press in November 2024. The recipient of the 2023 Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, he lives in Berlin.

Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife

Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife Lyn Hejinian’s Counterlife

The pioneering poet expanded the possibilities of both poetry and autobiographical writing.

Mar 7, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity

In a career spanning collection This Afterlife, the poet opens up a dialogue about the history of form and the rich possibilities of the practice's oldest modes of expression.

Jan 19, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby

Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”

Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick” Toe to Toe With “Moby-Dick”

Pierre Senges’s avant-garde retelling of Melville's great work asks us what the limits of the novel are. 

Jun 29, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery The Sublime Ironies of John Ashbery

Does his first posthumous collection, Parallel Movement of the Hands, help answer the riddle of his poetic project? 

Jan 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Ryan Ruby

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