{"product_id":"madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures-paperback","title":"Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the wisest books I've read in years... --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle is the author of \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (\u003ci\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/i\u003e, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, \u003ci\u003eGo Home and Go to Bed!\u003c\/i\u003e, (Pilot Books\/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of \u003ci\u003eA Little White Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769950011680,"sku":"9781933517575","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e4ef9a384153def418b2414c0b398715.webp?v=1780360679","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/madness-rack-and-honey-collected-lectures-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}