Why poetry
Zapruder, Matthew
Why poetry - New York Harper Collins Pub. 2017 - xvi,239,ip.
CONTENTS
Introduction xi
1. Three beginnings and the machine of poetry 1
2. Literalists of the imagination 15
3. Three literal readings 27
4. Make it strange 41
5. Some thoughts on form and why I rhyme 55
6. The one thing that can save America 75
7. Negative capability 101
8. Three political poems 115
9. Dream meaning 129
10. Alien names 151
11. True symbols 161
12. Most of the stories have to do with vanishing 183
13. Nothing is the force that renovates the world 197
Aftreword 219
Acknowledgements 227
Credits 231
Index 235
9780062343079
801.951 / ZAP
Why poetry - New York Harper Collins Pub. 2017 - xvi,239,ip.
CONTENTS
Introduction xi
1. Three beginnings and the machine of poetry 1
2. Literalists of the imagination 15
3. Three literal readings 27
4. Make it strange 41
5. Some thoughts on form and why I rhyme 55
6. The one thing that can save America 75
7. Negative capability 101
8. Three political poems 115
9. Dream meaning 129
10. Alien names 151
11. True symbols 161
12. Most of the stories have to do with vanishing 183
13. Nothing is the force that renovates the world 197
Aftreword 219
Acknowledgements 227
Credits 231
Index 235
9780062343079
801.951 / ZAP