{"title":"Books by Mary Ruefle","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781933517575","title":"Madness, Rack, and Honey","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledges and celebrates in the odd mystery and mysticism of the act—the fact that poetry must both guard and reveal, hint at and pull back... Also, and maybe most crucially, Ruefle’s work is never once stuffy or overdone: she writes this stuff with a level of seriousness-as-play that’s vital and welcome, that doesn’t make writing poetry sound anything but wild, strange, life-enlargening fun. -\u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfound, unpredictable, charming, and outright funny...These informal talks have far more staying power and verve than most of their kind. Readers may come away dazzled, as well as amused... —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way. This is a desert island book. —\u003ci\u003eMatthew Dickman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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, \u003ci\u003eMadness, Rack, and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e resists definition, demanding instead an utter—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Ruefle\u003c\/b\u003e has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309641773429,"sku":"9781933517575","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781933517575_dd7344af-66c5-4fe4-adba-d1f10155d91f.jpg?v=1786030169"},{"product_id":"9780887484070","title":"Tristimania","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367819358581,"sku":"9780887484070","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780887484070_3168f209-5e6a-4a8c-ae71-e273f2ba48f5.jpg?v=1786033217"},{"product_id":"golden-crumbs","title":"Golden Crumbs","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGolden Crumbs\u003c\/em\u003e, Mary Ruefle, a master of the absurd aphorism and philosophical curio, shows us ancient anchovies, poets aspiring to be birds, a cryalogue, powdered glass for dinner, friends who don’t read your poems, lovers, big houses, blue houses, big mountains and more, in a voice that is irreverent, philosophical, inimitable: world-making and world-breaking. The kinship between people, animals and landscapes is lightly, thoughtfully, crisply rendered, with emotional depths that she drops through, with ease, like a penny in a well. These texts are fun, funny, moving, melancholic and full of games, Ruefle’s voice and style enacting a playful magic that allows us to query art and ourselves in equal measure. Gathering three collections of prose – \u003cem\u003eThe Most of It\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMy Private Property \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Book \u003c\/em\u003e– \u003cem\u003eGolden Crumb\u003c\/em\u003es is essential reading from ‘the best prose-writing poet in America’ (\u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507597746549,"sku":"9781804272824","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804272824.jpg?v=1787042605"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mary-ruefle.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}