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Poets Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 155
Authors: Helen Vendler
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the fou
The Hatred of Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 97
Authors: Ben Lerner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-07 - Publisher: Macmillan

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"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Thinking Its Presence
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Dorothy J. Wang
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-04 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned ca
Thinking Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Peter Nicholls
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-16 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language
How Poems Think
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Reginald Gibbons
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-23 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways—guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry’s stance