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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Hirsch, Edward

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Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
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ISBN
0151004196
EAN
9780151004195
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Publication Name
How to Read a Poem : and Fall in Love with Poetry
Item Length
9.2 in
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Subject
General, Poetry
Publication Year
1999
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Edward Hirsch
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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"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.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151004196
ISBN-13
9780151004195
eBay Product ID (ePID)
947244

Product Key Features

Author
Edward Hirsch
Publication Name
How to Read a Poem : and Fall in Love with Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
General, Poetry
Publication Year
1999
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

LCCN
98-050065
Lc Classification Number
Pn1042.H48 1999
Reviews
"A lovely book, full of joy and wisdom."-The Baltimore Sun "Hirsch's contribution is significant, [grounded] in the obvious pleasure he has experienced through words. . . . Who could resist the wiles of this poetry-broker-a writer rapidly becoming the baby boomers' preeminent man of letters?"-Detroit Free Press "Laudable . . . The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read a poem is: Ecstatically."-The Boston Book Review
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
808.1
Dewey Edition
21

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  • by jolder1
    Jul 02, 2006

    Rich and layered

    This takes a long time to read because each page can be savored and thoughtfully re-read. I am very glad to have it with my collection of poetry.

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