TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ardam,Jacquelyn
TI  - Avidly reads poetry
T2  - Avidly reads
SN  - 9781479813582 (paperback)
AV  - PN 1281 A676a 2022
U1  - 808.1 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Poesía
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Apreciación literaria
KW  - Aspectos sociales
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The sonnet : to want -- The alphabet poem : to learn -- The documentary poem : to resist -- The internet poem : to soothe -- Coda: The villanelle : to lose
N2  - "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"--
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