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

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

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

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

by Stephanie Burt
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Book Overview

"At once erudite and colloquial" (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry

In Don't Read Poetry, 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.
ISBN9781541603615
Author Stephanie Burt
PublisherBasic Books
GenreEducation and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. Her work appears in the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, among others. Her other books of poetry and literary criticism--fourteen in all--include We Are Mermaids, Advice from the Lights, and Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Massachusetts.

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