| Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems Contributor(s): Burt, Stephanie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465094503 ISBN-13: 9780465094509 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $27.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Translating & Interpreting |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 2018054504 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Cultural Region - Asian - Sex & Gender - Gay - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys--and challenges--of the genre 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 ing nues and cognoscenti alike. |