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Publication
Seattle: Wave Books, 2012.
Description
"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 Honey resists definition, demanding instead an utter--and utterly pleasurable--immersion."--Publisher description.
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LibraryThing member aliceoddcabinet
Possibly one of my favorite books of Artist's Essays yet. Irreverent of the form of "lecture". Abstract enough to be poetic, narrative enough to tell the story of writing. Essays in a true sense..."trying" something. there is no hypothesis to prove, no tedious evidence to support it. Just an
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experienced poet, thinking . Show Less
LibraryThing member aliceoddcabinet
Possibly one of my favorite books of Artist's Essays yet. Irreverent of the form of "lecture". Abstract enough to be poetic, narrative enough to tell the story of writing. Essays in a true sense..."trying" something. there is no hypothesis to prove, no tedious evidence to support it. Just an
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experienced poet, thinking . Show Less
LibraryThing member tungsten_peerts
This book is in the process of helping to save my life.
LibraryThing member allriledup
I never wanted it to end - thought-provoking, inspiring and always wise.
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
Mary Ruefle hits some nails on the head in this collection of essays. My first encounter with her work, poetry or otherwise, I didn't know what to expect and was delighted to find variety of lectures, creative, provocative, and full of so much damn wit! She is willing to wrestle, admit ignorance,
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and be contradictory in a way that is both evocative of an actual thought-process and in service of a more intuitive understanding. She includes some personal essays, such as "I remember, I remember" which don't feel disjointed in the collection but provide a demonstration of her range as a prose writer. Show Less
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — 2012)