Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations

Powerful meditations on the nature and limits of human understanding from the author of Rider, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

In a constellation of essays, Mark Rudman brings his distinctive sensibility to ruminations on family history, the significance of place, the role of art in clarifying a chaotic world, and the thin, all-too-permeable line between sanity and insanity, restraint and abject cruelty.

"The inquiry, which you follow with brilliance and irony as ...