@article{889948,
      recid = {889948},
      author = {Burt, Stephanie,},
      title = {Don't read poetry : a book about how to read poems /},
      pages = {ix, 306 pages ;},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/889948},
}