Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems

Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read PoemsAn 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

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 05/21/2019
ISBN: 9780465094509
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/08/2019
Booklist 05/01/2019 pg. 60
Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 109
Choice 10/01/2019