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Author:	Edward Hirsch	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Harcourt	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0151004196	ISBN-13:	9780151004195
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	1999	Subject:	Literature & Fiction
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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Readers used to prose may want a little guidance getting used to the idiosyncrasies of reading poetry, and the author of this study aims to give it. Arguing that poems include their own instructions for reading, he works through poems by such poets as Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Pablo Neruda, and Sylvia Plath to show how rewarding the experience of reading poetry can be.
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Length:	354 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	24.0 oz.

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An extraordinary guide to the magic and meaning of poetry, by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet and critic. "Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture-the constant buzzing noise that surrounds you-has momentarily stopped. This poem has come from a great distance to find you." So begins this astonishing book by one of our leading poets and critics. In an unprecedented exploration of the genre, Hirsch writes about what poetry is, why it matters, and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message-which is of vital importance in day-to-day life-can reach us and make a difference. For Hirsch, poetry is not just a part of life, it is life, and expresses like no other art our most sublime emotions. In a marvelous reading of world poetry, including verse by such poets as Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Pablo Neruda, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baudelaire, and many more, Hirsch discovers the meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives but don't know how to read it. One of America's brightest stars in the field explains the meaning of poetry in everyday life, shows how to read it, and tells readers why poetry is important.
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"As someone who has been reading, writing, writing about and teaching poetry for many years..., I have found something to admire on virtually every page of Hirsch's gorgeously written book." letter, The New York Times Book Review - Joel Conarroe (07/25/1999) "I take [Hirsch's] Barnum & Bailey promises--'You will hear the harshest trochee! You will experience animal intensity in the mouth!'--as posters for a circus Hirsch is no longer sure anybody wants to go to....Hirsch is unabashedly on the side of true depths of feeling and arrays an international host of poets to demonstrate how it's possible to transcend afternoon-television emotion. And yet he is everywhere hampered by his need to explain the simplest things to readers who are, presumably, products of our superficial, media-driven culture." Wilson

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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry

Edward Hirsch

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0151004196
Publication Date:	1999-03-22
Publisher:	Harcourt

Pages:	288
Height:	1.3000 inches
Width:	5.9600 inches
Weight:	1.5900 pounds

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