Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems
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Published
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 306 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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808.1 Bur
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
808.1 Bur
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808.1 Bur
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Southside - Adult
808.1 Bur
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808.1 Bur
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Published
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"In Don't Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another -- and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about "poetry," whether we think we like it or think we don't, in order to help us cherish -- and distinguish among -- individual poems. A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don't Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike"--,Provided by publisher.
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