Don't read poetry
By Burt, Stephanie,
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Don't read poetry :a book about how to read poems

by
Burt, Stephanie,1971-. author.
Format
Book
Language
English (English)
Subjects
PoetryExplication.(DLC)sh85103710
American poetryHistory and criticism.(DLC)sh2008117586
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Publisher and Date
New York :Basic Books,2019.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780465094509.
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0465094503.
Library of Congress Call Number
PS303.B86 2019
Geographic Area Code
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Description
306 pages ;22 cm
Contents (as listed on item)
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System Control Number
(OCoLC)1051137375
General Note(s)
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Summary"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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