Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Over the course of 15 years, award-winning poet Mary Ruefle delivered a lecture every six months to a group of poetry graduate students. Collected here for the first time, these lectures articulate the wisdom accrued through a life dedicated entirely to poetry. Intellectually virtuosic, instructive and experiential, MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY resists definition, demanding instead an utter��nd utterly pleasurable��mmersion.

For every time I read a poem I am willing to die...