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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.     Subjects     Poetry.     Poetry -- History and criticism.     Poetics.     Poetry -- Public opinion.     Poetry -- Appreciation.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lerner, Ben, 1979- author.       by title:      The hatred of poetry...         MARC Display

The hatred of poetry / Ben Lerner. by Lerner, Ben, 1979- author. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. Subjects Poetry.   Poetry -- History and criticism.   Poetics.   Poetry -- Public opinion.   Poetry -- Appreciation. ISBN:  9780865478206 (paperback) : 0865478201 (paperback) Series:  FSG originals. Description:  86 pages ; 19 cm. Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"-- "The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 808.1 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 808.1 Le Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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