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Avidly Reads Poetry /

"More Americans are reading poetry in the 21st century than ever before. This books asks: how do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for? Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it? Each chapter links a reason...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ardam, Jacquelyn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"More Americans are reading poetry in the 21st century than ever before. This books asks: how do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for? Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it? Each chapter links a reason why we might read poetry (to want, to learn, to resist, to soothe) with a type of poem (the sonnet, the alphabet poem, the documentary poem, the internet poem). Through readings of poems written in English from Shakespeare through today, and through reading the American cultures in which we read them, the book thinks about how poems are embedded in our lives: in our loves, our educations, our politics, and our social media, sometimes in spite of, and sometimes very much because of the nation we live in"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations ;
ISBN:9781479813605