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Madness, Rack, And Honey: Collected Lectures (2012)

by Mary Ruefle(Favorite Author)

4.46 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1933517573 (ISBN13: 9781933517575)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Wave Books

review 1: Oh, this is a fantastic book. I want to give it six stars, or ten thousand. It's kind of a scary book. Ruefle's associative thinking about the most important things is filled with beauty and terror, love and death. I love the lecture about Dickinson, Bronte, and Anne Frank; I love the title lecture; and I love what happens to the moon at the end of "I Remember, I Remember." As Ruefle writes, poetry is making marks, making violent acts, and drawing a picture of happiness, and this whole book is the madness, rack, and honey of it--its wit and vision will sustain me for a long time.
review 2: 'Accidental' lectures written in the space poetry is born. One of the most illuminating things I've read, ever. I will forget 95% of the terrain of this collection within six... more months, I am sure, but I will never forget the absolute feeling of transportation that lives in this prose, and that will bring me back in a state of blissful having-forgottenness to go it again. If "We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between two things" isn't a thesis for a lifetime, I don't know what is, unless it's "A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind." less

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