How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry | 
pickHirsch‘s love of poetry is infectious. I am in awe of his ability to look at poetry analytically. To discern metaphor through the poem‘s form, to see allegory in the word choice, to look at a poem as a work of art yet not be desensitized to its power. What else is great about this book? How many new poets I have discovered and how many wonderful poems Hirsch includes here.
Time to hit up the library and check out like half their poetry section!
Book poem
Full moon.
The night listener
Lies sleeping.
Silence.
pickI love Edward Hirsch, his poems and how he writes about poetry. For some reason, I struggled with this one. I actually would recommend his collection of Washington Post Book World columns, Poet‘s Choice, for falling in love with poetry. Still, this is a rich, beautiful journey through poetry.
I‘ve been straight struggling with this book for longer than I care to admit. The fault is fully mine, I‘ve been in a weird space with poetry lately, but this chapter on poems “Beyond Desolation” has swept me away (how I‘m used to feeling when reading Edward Hirsch). Here‘s the last stanza of Robert Frost‘s “Desert Places,” so powerful and resonant to me!
The reader of poetry is a kind of pilgrim setting out, setting forth. The reader is what Wallace Stevens calls 'the scholar of one candle'. Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning...
Edward Hirsch
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
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Poetry as salvaging a shipwreck ⚓️🌦📖
