{"product_id":"madness-rack-and-honey","title":"Madness, Rack, and Honey","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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, \u003cem\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/em\u003e resists definition, demanding instead an utter--and utterly pleasurable--immersion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is one of the wisest books I've read in years...\" - New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 with a level of seriousness-as-play that's vital and welcome, that doesn't make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun.\" - The Kenyon Review \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProfound, 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... - Publishers Weekly \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature...- San Francisco Examiner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62687094047050,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/Madness_RackandHoney.jpg?v=1790948411","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/en\/products\/madness-rack-and-honey","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}