Don’t Read Poetry
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Don’t Read Poetry

A Book About How to Read Poems

by Stephanie Burt

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On Sale

May 21, 2019

Page Count

320 Pages

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ISBN-13

9780465094516

Genre

Nonfiction / Literary Criticism / Poetry

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 ingénues and cognoscenti alike.

Meet The Author: Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. She received a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, and the National Endowment for the Arts selected her book of poems Advice from the Lights as a national Big Read pick. Her work appears regularly in the New York Times Book Review, New Yorker, London Review of Books, and other journals. Her other books of poetry and literary criticism—fourteen in all—include We Are Mermaids and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Massachusetts.

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