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Title: How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch ISBN: 0-15-600566-2 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 07 March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introduction to the pleasures of poetry
Comment: A mentor of mine always used to say "There are two kinds of people in this world!" and he would then expand on whatever dichotomy was on his mind at the moment. He might well have said that there are those who "get" poetry, and those who don't. I have always been firmly in the latter camp, but perhaps am more recently moving toward the former. Though I still have quite a ways to go, this book really helped move me along. This is a very well-written introduction to the joys of reading poetry. Besides presenting the reader with examples of many different types and styles of poetry it's just very enjoyable to read this author's writing.
While my reaction to the poems in the book is not even on the same scale as the author's very visceral, emotional responses, I feel like I nevertheless grasped enough of his reaction to know what he was feeling, and what he was getting at in his description. But I'll admit that some of the poems I read over and over again trying to detect some of *his* response in *me*, and I rarely did. I think this has more to do with my naivete, and I sort of envied the author's obvious depth of feeling in response to these poems.
Anyway - it's a great read and if you're a lover of poetry or even just curious about it, I recommend this book highly.
Rating: 4
Summary: Rich and Chocolaty
Comment: I really enjoy reading Hirsch because he has a romantic love affair with poetry and his enthusiasm is infectious in the extreme.
This is an excellent introduction to what poetry is and what it can do. Hirsch focuses on the romantic/spiritual side to poetry, his favourite poets being Whitman and Emerson.
He does get a bit carried away with this at times and is best introducing new and obscure pots such as the modern Greek poet Cavafy.
It is not the sort of book you read over three days. I found myself reading very slowly, like eating a big rich chocolate dessert.
Rating: 5
Summary: You will underline the whole thing
Comment: This book is not only for beginners. I am not a beginner, and i enjoyed every word of it. It reinforced everything i feel about poetry but can't put into words. Hirsch is a master at expressing what a single poem can do, and the powers of poetry from around the world.
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Title: The Sounds of Poetry : A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky ISBN: 0374526176 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Poetry Reader's Toolkit by Marc Polonsky ISBN: 0844259888 Publisher: Glencoe/MacMillan McGraw Hill Pub. Date: 12 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $28.64 |
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Title: The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration by Edward Hirsch ISBN: 0156027445 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms by Mark Strand, Eavan Boland ISBN: 0393321789 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Rhyme`s Reason: A Guide to English Verse, Third Edition by John Hollander ISBN: 0300088329 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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