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001 2015038511
003 DLC
005 20151128080403.0
008 151125s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015038511
020 $a9780865478206 (paperback)
020 $z9780374712334 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN1031$b.L47 2016
082 00 $a808.1$223
084 $aLIT014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLerner, Ben,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe hatred of poetry /$cBen Lerner.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1606
264 1 $aNew York :$bFSG Originals,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPoetry.
650 0 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPoetics.
650 0 $aPoetry$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aPoetry$xAppreciation.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.$2bisacsh