Bibliograph

Avidly reads poetry, Jacquelyn Ardam

Type

Label

Avidly reads poetry, Jacquelyn Ardam

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Avidly reads poetry

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jacquelyn Ardam

Series statement

Avidly reads

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The sonnet : to want -- The alphabet poem : to learn -- The documentary poem : to resist -- The internet poem : to soothe -- Coda: The villanelle : to lose

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