The hatred of poetry / (Record no. 132144)

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International Standard Book Number 9780865478206 (paperback)
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Classification number PN1031
Item number .L47 2016
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Classification number 808.1
Edition number 23
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Classification number LIT014000
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Personal name Lerner, Ben,
Dates associated with a name 1979-
Relator term author.
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Title The hatred of poetry /
Statement of responsibility, etc Ben Lerner.
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Edition statement First edition.
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Extent 86 pages ;
Dimensions 19 cm
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Summary, etc "No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible"--
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Summary, etc "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetry.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetry
General subdivision History and criticism.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetics.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetry
General subdivision Public opinion.
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poetry
General subdivision Appreciation.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
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