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Format:
Book
Title:
How to read a poem : and fall in love with poetry
ISBN:
9780151004195

9780156005661
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Harcourt Inc., [1999]
Physical Description:
xiii, 354 pages ; 23 cm
Series title(s):
General Note:
"A DoubleTake book."

"Published by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with---."
Contents:
Message in a bottle -- A made thing -- A hand, a hook, a prayer -- Three initiations -- At the white heat -- Five acts -- Beyond desolation -- Poetry and history : Polish poetry after the end of the world -- Re : form -- A shadowy exultation -- Soul in action -- "To the reader at parting" -- The glossary and the pleasure of the text -- A reading list and the pleasure of the catalog.
Summary:
This volume presents an exploration of poetry and feeling, introducing poems selected by the author as emblematic because they suggest something crucial about the nature of poetry itself, and offering his insights on how the poems should be read. In this guide, the author reaches out to all those who may be disaffected by the mere mention of poetry and instructs the reader to focus on a personal, emotional response.
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