| Description |
1 online resource (84 p.) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Sonnet: To Want -- 2 The Alphabet Poem: To Learn -- 3 The Documentary Poem: To Resist -- 4 The Internet Poem: To Soothe -- Coda: The Villanelle: To Lose -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited and Consulted -- About the Author |
| Summary |
"Poetry has leapt out of its world and into the world"Poetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing "The Hill We Climb" before the nation at Joe Biden's Presidential inauguration, to poems regularly going viral on Instagram and Twitter, more Americans are reading and interacting with poetry than ever before. Avidly Reads Poetry is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is written and shared.Mixing literary and cultural criticism with the author's personal and often intimate relationship with poetry, Avidly Reads Poetry breathes life into poems of every genre--from alphabet poems and Shakespeare's sonnets to Claudia Rankine's Citizen and Rupi Kaur's Instapoetry--and 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 section links a reason why we might read poetry with a type of poem to help us think 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.Part of the Avidly Reads series, this slim book gives us a new way of looking at American culture. With the singular blend of personal reflection and cultural criticism featured in the series, Avidly Reads Poetry shatters the wall between poetry and "the rest of us." |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Poetry -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
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Literature and society
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Poetry -- Appreciation
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Poetry -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479813605 |
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1479813605 |
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