Research Catalog

Title

Madness, rack, and honey : collected lectures / Mary Ruefle.

Author

Ruefle, Mary, 1952-

Publication

Seattle : Wave Books ; [St. Paul, Minn.] : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, c2012.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Wave Books.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

viii, 326, [1] p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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{u2014}and utterly pleasurable{u2014}immersion." --Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Subject

• Poetry > History and criticism
• Poetry > Authorship
• Poetics

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On beginnings -- Poetry and the moon -- On sentimentality -- On theme -- On secrets : eight beginnings, two ends -- On fear -- Madness, rack, and honey -- My Emily Dickinson -- Someone reading a book is a sign of order in the world -- Remarks on letters -- Kangaroo Beach -- I remember, I remember -- Twenty-two short lectures -- Lectures I will never give.

ISBN

• 9781933517575 (alk. paper)
• 1933517573 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011049617

OCLC

• 756582535
• SCSB-12531770

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library