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

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Don't Read Poetry: A Book about How to Read Poems -- Stephanie Burt, Paperback"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

mix in James Ellroy's gritty realism and Jonathan Swift's unflinching satire and

Yet despite his hatred for her

He bravely confronts the pain of losing a loved one to senseless violence

Her husband - doting father

Karter said

the villainess of a cliché romance novel

Now every night is Taco Night

Finally he is sent to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego

He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony

ISBN: 9781536220391

" This reflex leads us down a path of adding features and benefits to our ideas or increasing the sizzle of our messaging - all in the hope of getting others on board

his quarry comes to him

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