This is one of the wisest books I\'ve read in years...
She lives in Vermont..
Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures.
Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Intellectually virtuosic, instructive, and experiential, Madness, Rack, and Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter--and utterly pleasurable--immersion.
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. -- San Francisco Examiner Over the course of fifteen years, Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. -- Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature...
This is a desert island book. -- Publishers Weekly This 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.
Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... - The Kenyon Review Profound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...
These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind.
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.
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... -- New York Times Book Review No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does.
This is one of the wisest books I\'ve read in years..
