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Poetry as enchantment : and other essays / Dana Gioia.

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"In the essays in 'Poetry as enchantment'--more personal than any of his earlier works--Dana Gioia shares a lifetime of thought and experience about poetry. Gioia, the author of 'Can poetry matter?', talks about poetry in a radically different way than it is currently being taught or discussed. In the title essay, he explains that poetry is speech raised to the level of song, and though poetry may often misunderstood as intellectual, it moves us the way music does. Poetry charms its readers, creating a heightened experience of attention. It addresses readers in the fullness of their humanity, simultaneously speaking to the mind, emotions, imagination, memory, and physical senses. Without academic jargon, 'Poetry as enchantment' relates literature to the questions of life"--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781589881952
ISBN: 1589881958
Physical Description: xvii, 272 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: First Paul Dry Books edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2024.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface -- Poetry as enchantment -- Class struggle : Donald Davie at Stanford -- Robert Frost and the modern narrative poem -- The unknown soldier : the war poetry of John Allan Wyeth -- Where home may be : Elizabeth Bishop -- Blindingly undiminished : Philip Larkin -- "I am the King's son" : Samuel Menashe -- Good poems : Garrison Keillor -- Back from oblivion : Weldon Kees -- In praise of Lim : Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Heaney in Hades : Seamus Heaney's Virgil -- The last of the great quarterlies : Frederick Morgan and the "Hudson Review" -- Ray Bradbury's "Butterfly effect" -- "Just one damn thing after another" : Jack Foley's literary timeline -- Los Angeles as a cultural home -- The state of poetry : loud and live.