Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“This is based on no science, pseudo or otherwise, but I firmly believe that the elapsed time between the development of language and creation of the first poem was about five minutes.”
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge.
Poetry demands more from readers—intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually—than any other literary forms. Most of us started off loving poetry because it filled our children’s books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn’t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more.
With How To Read Poetry Like a Professor, readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards.
Read Alikes for How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry; A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver; Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt; How a Poem Moves by Adam Sol
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy.
“This is based on no science, pseudo or otherwise, but I firmly believe that the elapsed time between the development of language and creation of the first poem was about five minutes.”
No literary form is as admired and feared as poetry. Admired for its lengthy pedigree—a line of poets extending back to a time before recorded history—and a ubiquitous presence in virtually all cultures, poetry is also revered for its great beauty and the powerful emotions it evokes. But the form has also instilled trepidation in its many admirers mainly because of a lack of familiarity and knowledge.
Poetry demands more from readers—intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually—than any other literary forms. Most of us started off loving poetry because it filled our children’s books from Dr. Seuss to Robert Louis Stevenson. Eventually, our reading shifted to prose and later when we encountered poetry again, we had no recent experience to make it feel familiar. But reading poetry doesn’t need to be so overwhelming. In an entertaining and engaging voice, Thomas C. Foster shows readers how to overcome their fear of poetry and learn to enjoy it once more.
With How To Read Poetry Like a Professor, readers can rediscover poetry and reap its many rewards.
Read Alikes for How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry; A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver; Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt; How a Poem Moves by Adam Sol
ISBN 978-0-06-211378-8
Thomas C. Foster
2018
