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In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. He takes on what it is that poetry--and poetry alone--can do. 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.
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- Title Why Poetry
- Author Matthew Zapruder
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780062343086 / 0062343084
- Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Poetry - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.1
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