{"product_id":"avidly-reads-poetry-9781479813582","title":"Avidly Reads Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoetry has leapt out of its world and into\u003ci\u003e the\u003c\/i\u003e world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetry is everywhere. From Amanda Gorman performing The Hill We Climb before the nation at Joe Biden's Presidential inauguration, to poems regularly going viral on Instagram and Twitter, more Americans are reading and interacting with poetry than ever before. \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to poetry and the worlds that come into play around the different ways it is written and shared.\u003cbr\u003eMixing literary and cultural criticism with the author's personal and often intimate relationship with poetry, \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads Poetry \u003c\/i\u003ebreathes life into poems of every genrefrom alphabet poems and Shakespeare's sonnets to Claudia Rankine's \u003ci\u003eCitizen\u003c\/i\u003e and Rupi Kaur's Instapoetryand asks: How do poems come to us? How do they make us feel and think and act when they do? Who and what is poetry for? Who does poetry include and exclude, and what can we learn from it?\u003cbr\u003eEach section links a reason why we might\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A smart guide ... Ardam is thoughtful in her examination of how poetry infiltrates pop culture, and her love of the genre shines. Readers looking to start a poetry habit will appreciate this earnest consideration.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"What can poems \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e? How might they capture our desires, comfort us, connect us, or help us carve out space for ourselves in the world? When do they make us wince, and how do they make us weep? When does poetry let us off the hook, and when and how can poetry hold us accountable for systemic and historical injustices? With unflinching honesty, capacious expertise, humor, and heart, Ardam invites us in to her brilliant and multifaceted modes of thinking about poetry. Pedagogical in its essence and political to its core, \u003ci\u003eAvidly Reads Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e invites well-versed poetry lovers and Intro to Poetry students alike to ask how they see themselves in poetry, and what they find there.\" * Rachel Feder, author of \u003ci\u003eBirth Chart\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409055654231,"sku":"9781479813582","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479813582.jpg?v=1730505269","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/avidly-reads-poetry-9781479813582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}