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<div>This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... &#151;<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>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&#151;the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle&#8217;s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that&#8217;s vital and welcome, that doesn&#8217;t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -<i>The Kenyon Review</i><br><br>Profound, 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... &#151;<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>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. This is a desert island book. &#151;<i>Matthew Dickman</i><br><br>The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... &#151;<i>San Francisco Examiner</i><br><br><p>Over 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, <i>Madness, Rack, and Honey</i> resists definition, demanding instead an utter&#151;and utterly pleasurable&#151;immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award.</p><br><br><b>Mary Ruefle</b><p> has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.</p><br></div>

<div>Mary Ruefle is the author of <i>Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures</i>, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and <i>Selected Poems</i> (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (<i>The Most of It</i>, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, <i>Go Home and Go to Bed!</i>, (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 <i>A Little White Shadow</i> (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.<br></div>