Madness, Rack, and Honey

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ISBN 13 : 9781933517575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Madness, Rack, and Honey written by Mary Ruefle and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural criticism meets poetry memoir--a contemporary master reflects on a life dedicated to poetry.

Madness, Rack, and Honey

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Publisher : Wave Books
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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Madness, Rack, and Honey by : Mary Ruefle

Download or read book Madness, Rack, and Honey written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the wisest books I've read in years... —New York Times Book Review No 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. -The Kenyon Review Profound, 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... —Publishers Weekly This 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. —Matthew Dickman The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry, aesthetics and literature... —San Francisco Examiner 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—and utterly pleasurable—immersion. Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. Mary Ruefle has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.

A Little White Shadow

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517034
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book A Little White Shadow written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite art book of gentle and elegant found poetry.

My Private Property

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 195026825X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis My Private Property by : Mary Ruefle

Download or read book My Private Property written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Madness, Rack, and Honey ("One of the wisest books I've read in years," according to the New York Times) and Trances of the Blast, Mary Ruefle continues to be one of the most dazzling poets in America. My Private Property, comprised of short prose pieces, is a brilliant and charming display of her humor, deep imagination, mindfulness, and play in a finely crafted edition. Personalia When I was young, a fortune-teller told me that an old woman who wanted to die had accidentally become lodged in my body. Slowly, over time, and taking great care in following esoteric instructions, including lavender baths and the ritual burial of keys in the backyard, I rid myself of her presence. Now I am an old woman who wants to die and lodged inside me is a young woman dying to live; I work on her. Mary Ruefle is the author of Trances of the Blast; Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism; and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She has published ten other books of poetry, a book of prose (The Most of It), and a comic book, Go Home and Go to Bed!; she is also an erasure artist whose treatments of nineteenth-century texts have been exhibited in museums and galleries as well as published in the book A Little White Shadow. 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.

Trances of the Blast

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1950268268
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Trances of the Blast written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the wisest books I've read in years, and it would be a shame to think that only poets will read it."—David Kirby, The New York Times Book Review, on Madness, Rack, and Honey "What a civil, undomesticable, and heartening poet is Mary Ruefle . . . any Ruefle poem is an occasion of resonant wit and language, subject to an exacting intelligence."—Rodney Jones, Poetry Society of America, William Carlos Williams Award citation Trances of the Blast is a major new collection from recent National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Mary Ruefle. Full of Ruefle's particular wisdom and wit, the poems deliver her imaginative take on the world's rifts—its paradoxes, failures, and loss—and help us better appreciate its redeeming strangeness. If only I'd understood that loneliness was just loneliness, only loneliness and nothing more. But I was blind. Little did I know. If only I'd invented salt. I might have died happy. I wish I loved you, but you can't have everything. Mary Ruefle is the author of many books of prose, poetry, and erasures. She is the recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award, 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. Her book of lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives and teaches in Vermont.

Selected Poems

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1933517565
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A career-defining retrospective by a much-beloved contemporary master.

Dunce

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ISBN 13 : 9781940696997
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (969 download)

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Book Synopsis Dunce by : Mary Ruefle

Download or read book Dunce written by Mary Ruefle and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

On Imagination

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Publisher : Sarabande Books
ISBN 13 : 1946448028
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis On Imagination by : Mary Ruefle

Download or read book On Imagination written by Mary Ruefle and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea," Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, Jesus, Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, and Emily Dickson to explore her subject. The chapbook features original interior illustrations. Mary Ruefle is the author of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, including Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Selected Poems, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

The Most of It

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Publisher : Wave Books
ISBN 13 : 1950268276
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Most of It written by Mary Ruefle and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Mary] Ruefle . . . brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.”—Charles Simic Fans of Lydia Davis and Miranda July will delight in this short prose from a beloved and cutting-edge poet. Here are thirty stories that deliver the soft touch and the sucker punch with stunning aplomb. Ducks, physicists, detectives, and The New York Times all make appearances. From “The Dart and the Drill”: I do not believe that when my brother pierced my skull with a succession of darts thrown from across our paneled rec room on the night of November 18th in my sixth year on earth, he was trying to transcend the notions of time and space as contained and protected by the human skull. But who can fathom the complexities of the human brain? Ten years later—this would have been in 1967—the New York Times reported a twenty-four year old man, who held an honor degree in law, died in the process of using a dentist’s drill on his own skull, positioned an inch above his right ear, in an attempt to prove that time and space could be conquered . . . Mary Ruefle’s poems and prose have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Poetry, and The Next American Essay. Her many awards include NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. She is a frequent visiting professor at the University of Iowa, and she lives and teaches in Vermont.

Post Meridian

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Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
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Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Post Meridian written by Mary Ruefle and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a line in a Mary Ruefle poem which speaks of the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. How accurate, we think as we read her. In poems striking for their vivid, playful, and original use of the imagination, she brings us an often unnerving, but always fresh and exhilarating view of our common experience of the world.

Indeed I was Pleased with the World

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Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
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Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Indeed I was Pleased with the World written by Mary Ruefle and published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Meanings of Madness

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Publisher : International Thomson Publishing Services
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Meanings of Madness by : Richard J. Castillo

Download or read book Meanings of Madness written by Richard J. Castillo and published by International Thomson Publishing Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ideal reader for anyone interested in studying the role that culture and social background can play in the causes of, and treatments for, mental illness. Meanings of Madness explores the variety of meanings that mental illness or madness can possess and takes into account the current move to expand the traditional medical paradigm to include social and cultural factors in the diagnosis of mental disorders. The reader was written to stand alone or to serve as a companion volume for the textbook Culture and Mental Illness (also by Richard J. Castillo). The 23 articles also include illustrations, examples, and case studies that augment the topics discussed in Castillo's main text. Most of the articles are based on ethnographic research or case studies and have appeared in journals of psychiatry, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology.

Virtual Machines

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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846282462
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis Virtual Machines by : Iain D. Craig

Download or read book Virtual Machines written by Iain D. Craig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I love virtual machines (VMs) and I have done for a long time.If that makes me "sad" or an "anorak", so be it. I love them because they are so much fun, as well as being so useful. They have an element of original sin (writing assembly programs and being in control of an entire machine), while still being able to claim that one is being a respectable member of the community (being structured, modular, high-level, object-oriented, and so on). They also allow one to design machines of one's own, unencumbered by the restrictions of a starts optimising it for some physical particular processor (at least, until one processor or other). I have been building virtual machines, on and off, since 1980 or there abouts. It has always been something of a hobby for me; it has also turned out to be a technique of great power and applicability. I hope to continue working on them, perhaps on some of the ideas outlined in the last chapter (I certainly want to do some more work with register-based VMs and concur rency). I originally wanted to write the book from a purely semantic viewpoint.

Finding What You Didn't Lose

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0874778093
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding What You Didn't Lose by : John Fox

Download or read book Finding What You Didn't Lose written by John Fox and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry discovers and speaks a truth ordinary language cannot express. And the passionate message in Finding What You Didn't Lose is that we're all poets--capable of giving voice to such truth. Poet-teacher John Fox reveals how imagery, sound, metaphor, rhythm, and other poetic elements can he us tell our inner story, heal psychological wounds, discover spiritual connection, and develop the rich creative imagination that lies within us all. Transcending the traditional academic approach to poetry writing, Finding What You Didn't Lose deals with craft but, more importantly, guides readers to explore their deepest feelings and express their own unique insights through the incomparable language of poetry. Through an intermingling of inventive exercises and illustrative poems--ranging from Nobel Prize winners to first-time poets--readers are inspired to add their own distinct voice to a world fellowship of poets. For those who already write poetry, and the many more who want to, this book is the key to finding what you never lose: your natural inclination to express who you are through the making of poems.

Rules for the Dance

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395850862
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis Rules for the Dance by : Mary Oliver

Download or read book Rules for the Dance written by Mary Oliver and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both readers and writers of poetry, here is a concise and engaging introduction to sound, rhyme, meter, and scansion - and why they matter. "The dance, " in the case of this brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in the English language, from Shakespeare to Edna St. Vincent Millay to Robert Frost. With a poet's ear and a poet's grace of expression, Mary Oliver helps us understand what makes a metrical poem work - and enables readers, as only she can, to "enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure."

Journal of a Solitude

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497646332
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Book Synopsis Journal of a Solitude by : May Sarton

Download or read book Journal of a Solitude written by May Sarton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet and author’s “beautiful . . . wise and warm” journal of time spent in her New Hampshire home alone with her garden, her books, the seasons, and herself (Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer). “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” —May Sarton May Sarton’s parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her “real” life—not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude—both an exhilarating and terrifying state. She likens writing to “cracking open the inner world again,” which sometimes plunges her into depression. She confesses her fears, her disappointments, her unresolved angers. Sarton’s garden is her great, abiding joy, sustaining her through seasons of psychic and emotional pain. Journal of a Solitude is a moving and profound meditation on creativity, oneness with nature, and the courage it takes to be alone. Both uplifting and cathartic, it sweeps us along on Sarton’s pilgrimage inward. This ebook features an extended biography of May Sarton.

Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers written by Hye-sun Kim and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi. The first full-length English language edition of one of the foremost woman poets in Modern Korean poetry. Kim Hyesoon was the first woman recipient of the prestigious Kim Suyong Contemporary Poetry Award, and is the author of eight collections of poetry. In Kim Hyesoon's saturated political fables, horror is packed inside cuteness, cuteness inside horror. Interior and exterior, political and intimate, human and animal, agent and victim become interchangeable, interbreeding elements. No subjecthood is fixed in this microscape of shifts, swellings, tender subjugations and acts of cruel selflessness