This is one of the wisest books I\'ve read in years...
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 a.
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..