Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

by Mary Ruefle

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933517573
• ISBN13: 9781933517575
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.9"