SUMMARY

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism
Listed in Best Books for Writers by Poets & Writers

For every time I read a poem I am willing to die...
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—and utterly pleasurable—immersion.