| How Poems Think Contributor(s): Gibbons, Reginald (Author) |
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ISBN: 022627800X ISBN-13: 9780226278001 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $28.71 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 2014043339 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways--guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets--Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gibbons, Reginald: - Reginald Gibbons is a Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. |