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Cultural criticism meets poetry memoira contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.
List of contents
TABLE OF 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
Introduction To Lecture on Books
So You Want To Write A Book?
Someone Reading A Book Is A Sign Of Order In The World
Remarks on Letters
Kangaroo Beach
I Remember, I Remember
Introduction To Reading Great Poems Of The Past
Twenty-Two Short Lectures
Lectures I Will Never Give
About the author
Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It, Wave Books, 2008), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!, (Pilot Books/Orange Table Comics, 2007); she is also an erasure artist, whose treatments of nineteenth century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries, and include the publication of A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006). Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.
