Title
Why poetry / Matthew Zapruder.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062343079 (hardcover)
0062343076 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Language
English
Description
xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PN1111 .Z37 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.1
Summary
"In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry - and poetry alone - can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it... Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder's personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-234) and index.
Three beginnings and the machine of poetry
Literalists of the imagination
Three literal readings
Make it strange
Some thoughts on form and why I rhyme
The one thing that can save America
Negative capability
Three political poems
Dream meaning
Alien names
True symbols
Most of the stories have to do with vanishing
Nothing is the force that renovates the world.
