| Description |
215 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
It is nothing like that / Richard Rapport -- Better speak / Hank Willis Thomas -- Out there / Lili Taylor -- The madness of the gods / Helen Fisher -- Love Jones / Natalie Y. Moore -- All my heart for speech / Roger Ebert -- They could croon / Archie Rand -- One-track mind / Leopold Froehlich -- The necessary fluster / Naomi Beckwith -- Poetry, daily / Mary Schmich -- Knowing nothing / Jia Tolentino -- Four walls / Iain McGilchrist -- A place for poetry / Roxane Gay -- Romance and reality / Lt. Gen. William James Lennox Jr. -- Haiku economics / Stephen T. Ziliak -- Green I love you green / Nalini Nadkarni -- The true nature / Tracey Johnstone -- The idea of order / Alex Ross -- Para Rumbiar / Fernando Perez -- Lucid, inescapable rhythms / Nicholas Photinos -- "Two loves I have..." / Alfred Molina -- Written in rock candy / Momus -- To hell with drawers / Will Oldham -- My life is a poem / Rhymefest -- Loosening the grip / Jolie Holland -- Word's worth / Rob Kenner -- My flaming hamster wheel of panic about publicly discussing poetry in this respected forum / Neko Case -- Poetry out loud / Sally Timms -- Poetry is useless / Anders Nilsen -- Poetry is a dumb-ass spider / Lynda Barry -- Wild unrest / Kay Redfield Jamison -- The fire of life / Richard Rorty -- Gloriously undone / Matt Fitzgerald -- Debris / Jerry Boyle -- On the road with Wallace and Wystan / Josh Warn -- Everything moves to live / Xeni Jardin -- Earthward / Amy Frykholm -- Happy, snappy, sappy / Daniel Handler -- Like, a noticeable amount of pee / Michaelanne Petrella -- On poetry / Ai Weiwei -- Imperfect recall / Christopher Hitchens -- Dust and stones / Etienne Ndayishimiye -- Imagining freedom / Mariame Kaba -- Sarajevo blues / Aleksandar Hemon -- Reporting poetry / Jeffrey Brown -- Like soldiers marching / Rachel Cohen -- Rama stores / Pankaj Mishra -- To speak with many tongues at once / Omar Kholeif -- How with this rage / Chris Hedges. |
| Summary |
"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. |
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Poetry (Chicago, Ill.)
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Poetry (Chicago, Ill.) (OCoLC)fst01360759
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
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POETRY.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Sasaki, Fred, editor.
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Share, Don, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780226504766 hardcover alkaline paper |
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022650476X hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780226504933 electronic book |
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