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"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...

Eine junge Frau besucht zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben ein klassisches Konzert und schläft mittendrin ein. Später bemerkt sie, dass es sich um Brahms »Wiegenlied« gehandelt hat - war sie vielleicht gar die einzige Person im Saal, die die Musik wirklich gehört hat? Eine ältere Frau sinniert über die ihrer Meinung nach zu Unrecht aufgegebene Praxis der Schrumpfköpfe - wie gerne würde sie zwölf Schrumpfköpfe ihrer Ahnen in einer Eierschachtel aufbewahren und sie gebührend erinnern. Eine Frau in den Wechseljahren dokumentiert die Unentrinnbarkeit des Verfalls beherzt in einem...

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...

Selectively painting over much of a forgotten nineteenth-century book, Ruefle's ninth publication brings new meaning to an old story. What remains visible is delicate poetry: artfully rendered, haunted by its former self, yet completely new. A high-quality replica of the original aged, delicate book in which Ruefle "erased" the text, this book will appeal to fans of poetry as well as visual art.

Mary Ruefle is the author of Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures, a finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism (Wave Books, 2012), and...