Who reads poetry 50 views from Poetry magazine
Book - 2017
"Who reads poetry? We know that poets do, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer, Poetry magazine since 2005 has published a column called "The View From Here," which has invited readers "from outside the world of poetry" to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers, journalists, musicians, and artists, as well as doctors and soldiers, an iron-worker, an anthropologist, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces, which are in turns surprising, provocative, touching, and funny."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Essays
- Published
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press
2017.
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 215 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9780226504766
- Introduction
- It Is Nothing like That
- Better Speak
- Out There
- The Madness of the Gods
- Love Jones
- All My Heart for Speech
- They Could Croon
- One-Track Mind
- The Necessary Fluster
- Poetry, Daily
- Knowing Nothing
- Four Walls
- A Place for Poetry
- Romance and Reality
- Haiku Economics
- Green I Love You Green
- The True Nature
- The True Nature
- The Idea of Order
- Para Rumbiar
- Lucid, IOnescapable Rhythms
- "Two Loves I Have..."
- Written in Rock Candy
- To Hell with Drewers
- My Life Is a Poem
- Loosening the Grip
- Word's Worth
- My Flaming Hamster Wheel of Panic about Publicly Discussing Poetry in This Respected Forum
- Poetry Out Loud
- Poetry Is Useless
- Poetry Is a Dumb-Ass Spider
- Wild Unrest
- The Fire of Life
- Gloriously Undone
- Debris
- On the Road with Wallace and Wystan
- Everything Moves to Live
- Earthward
- Happy, Snappy, Sappy
- Like, a Noticeable Amount of Pee
- On Poetry
- Imperfect Recall
- Dust and Stones
- Imagining Freedom
- Sarajevo Blues
- Reporting Poetry
- Like Soldiers Marching
- Rama Stores
- To Speak with Many Tongues at Once
- How with This Rage
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors