I’m usually not one to willingly read lectures, even if they are about poetry, but Madness, Rack, and Honey is so much more than that. Mary Ruefle takes poetry out of the classroom and into the world with her profound insights about the written word.
Madness, Rack, and Honeyis a compilation of Mary Ruefle’s graduate school lectures on poetry and the writing life. She discusses beginnings and endings, the moon, fear and writing, and the power of secrets.
“The poem is the consequence of its origins. Give me the fruit and I will take from it a seed and plant it and watch grow the tree from which it fell.”
Mary Ruefle, originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is concise in her prose and poetry. It is so easy to read. I highly recommend that you leave it for your Sunday afternoon. Something pleasant and insightful to peruse.
BavariaThe mountain skies were clearexcept for the umlaut of a cloudover the village.The little girl wore yellow gloves.She looked in the peephole and sawa stack of unused marionettes.Yet, she wondered.
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