TY - GEN AU - Zapruder, Matthew TI - Why poetry SN - 9780062343079 U1 - 801.951 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Harper Collins Pub. KW - N1 - 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 ER -