TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burt,Stephanie
TI  - Don't read poetry: a book about how to read poems 
SN  - 9780465094509
AV  - PS303 .B878 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - American poetry
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Explication
N1  - Includes index; Introduction: Reading poems -- Feelings -- Characters -- Technique -- Difficulty -- Wisdom -- Community
N2  - "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"--
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