How a Poem Moves
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How a Poem Moves

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

Adam Sol

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A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

Adam Sol

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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verse

Developed from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick read or to be grouped together as a curriculum.

Though How a Poem Moves is not a textbook, it demonstrates poetry's range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for readers who are afraid they "don't get" poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate a new appreciation.

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Publisher
ECW Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781773053172
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria nella poesia

How a Poem Moves

A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry

Adam Sol
ECW Press

Contents

Introduction
How a Poem Puts Skin on a Mystery
Philip Levine, “Making Light of It”
How a Poem Shapes Memory
Deborah Digges, “Stealing Lilacs in the Cemetery”
How a Poem Articulates a Feeling
C.K. Williams, “Love: Beginnings”
How a Poem Crystalizes an Image
Yusef Komunyakaa, “Yellowjackets”
How a Poem Makes Meaning with Music
Elise Partridge, “Domestic Interior: Child Watching Mother”
How a Poem Snapshots a Moment of Drama
Tiphanie Yanique, “My brother comes to me”
How a Poem Seduces Us with Outlandishness
Diane Seuss, “Free beer”
How a Poem Cooks Up Dark Insight
Philip Metres, “Recipe from the Abbasid”
How a Poem Pushes Us Away and Beckons Us Closer
Marilyn Dumont, “How to Make Pemmican”
How a Poem Wrestles with Its Inheritance
Rahat Kurd: “Ghazal: In the Persian”
How a Poem Lives Between Languages
Natalia Toledo, translated by Clare Sullivan, “Flower That Drops Its Petals”
How a Poem Invites Us to Praise
Ross Gay, “Ode to Drinking Water from My Hands”
How a Poem Answers Some Questions but Not Others
Amber McMillan, “The Light I’ve Seen in Your Hair I Have Found in My Own Hands”
How a Poem Clarifies Its Blur
Jeff Latosik, “Aubade Photoshop”
How a Poem Changes As We Read
Ali Blythe, “Shattered”
How a Poem Will (Not) Save Us
Raoul Fernandes, “Life with Tigers”
How a Poem Loves a Misunderstanding
Richard Siken, “Dots Everywhere”
How a Poem Mistrusts Its Idols
Cassidy McFadzean, “You Be the Skipper, I’ll Be the Sea”
How a Poem Doesn’t Dish
Damian Rogers, “Ode to a Rolling Blackout”
How a Poem Impersonates a Tomato
Oliver Bendorf, “Queer Facts about Vegetables”
How a Poem Seeks New Models
Shannon Maguire, “[The most visible ants are]”
How a Poem Makes Itself Out of Unusual Materials
Madhur Anand, “Especially in a Time”
How a Poem Chooses the Apocalypse Behind Curtain #3
Jennifer L. Knox, “The New Let’s Make a Deal”
How a Poem Assembles a Smashed Record for Posterity
George Murray, from “#DaydreamBereaver”
How a Poem Tries to Connect Us, Despite the Obstacles
Donna Stonecipher’s “Model City [4]”
How a Poem Welcomes Us to the Neighbourhood
Bren Simmers, “[Night of nesting dolls]”
How a Poem Evokes Wonder
Sarah Holland-Batt, “Botany”
How a Poem Reaches f...

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