Madness, Rack, and Honey : Collected Lectures

by Ruefle, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781933517575
• ISBN10: 1933517573
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-07
• Publisher: Wave Books

Summary

"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."--Tony Hoagland "For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience."--William Carlos Williams Award citation 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, Madness, Rack, and Honeyresists definition, demanding instead an utter--and utterly pleasurable--immersion. Mary Rueflehas published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. VII
On Beginnings	p. 1
Poetry and the Moon	p. 10
On Sentimentality	p. 31
On Theme	p. 53
On Secrets: Eight Beginnings, Two Ends	p. 73
On Fear	p. 103
Madness, Rack, and Honey	p. 126
My Family Dickinson	p. 143
Someone Reading a Book is a Sign of Order in the World	p. 183
Remarks on Letters	p. 200
Kangaroo Beach	p. 216
I Remember, I Remember	p. 226
Twenty-Two Short Lectures	p. 247
Lectures I Will Never Give	p. 279
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Selected Bibliography	p. 315
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