How to read a poem : and fall in love with poetry /
Edward Hirsch.
- New York : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1999.
- xvi, 352 p. ; 24 cm.
- Harvest Reading guide .
"A DoubleTake book." "Published by the Center for Documentary Studies in association with---."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-346) and index.
Message in a bottle -- A made thing -- A hand, a hook, a prayer -- Three initiations -- At the white heat -- Five acts -- Beyond desolation -- Poetry and history : Polish poetry after the end of the world -- Re : form -- A shadowy exultation -- Soul in action -- "To the reader at parting" -- The glossary and the pleasure of the text -- A reading list and the pleasure of the catalog.
0151004196 (hc) 9780151004195 (hc)
Poetics. Poética Poetry--Explication. Poetry--History and criticism. Poesía --Historia y crítica