<DIV><p>"Ruefle is clearly one of the best American poets writing, and her body of work is remarkable for its spiritual force, intelligence, stylistic virtuosity, and adventurousness."?Tony Hoagland</p><p>"For more than thirty years, she has freshened American poetry by humbly glorifying both the inner life and the outward experience."?William Carlos Williams Award citation</p><p>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, <I>Madness, Rack, and Honey</I> resists definition, demanding instead an utter?and utterly pleasurable?immersion.</p><p><B>Mary Ruefle</B> has published more than a dozen books of poetry, prose, and erasures. She lives in Vermont.</p></DIV>