{"product_id":"madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures","title":"Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures","description":"This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act--the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle's work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that's vital and welcome, that doesn't make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -\u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProfound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. --\u003ci\u003eMatthew Dickman\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures include \"Poetry and the Moon,\" \"Someone Reading a Book Is a Sign of Order in the World,\" and \"Lectures I Will Never Give.\" Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e resists definition, demanding instead an utter--and utterly pleasurable--immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e\r","brand":"Mary Ruefle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442454229228,"sku":"9781933517575","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781933517575.jpg?v=1764604556","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}