| Description |
xii, 123 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-118) and index. |
| Contents |
The Resistance to Poetry -- The End of the Line -- Forms of Disjunction -- Song and Story -- Untidy Activity -- The Spokenness of Poetry -- The Other Hand -- Leaving Things Out -- Composed Wonder. |
| Summary |
"The resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering a wide array of poets, from Virgil and Milton to Dickinson and Gluck, Longenbach suggests that poems convey knowledge only inasmuch as they refuse to be vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. In fact, this self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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| ISBN |
9780226492506 |
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0226492508 |
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0226492494 (alk. paper) |
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9780226492490 (alk. paper) |
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