A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them Part of Your Life

by Herbert R. Kohl

Book Overview

Poetry has the power to move and challenge the reader. It can intensify or even celebrate misery, be cynical or wry, or just laugh outright in an outrageous way. Poetry is as serious and as antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be difficult, shocking to our sense of what language is our must be.

In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl opens the door to communication with poetry--the whole range and variety of contemporary poetic voices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060187832
• ISBN13: 9780060187835
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Helpful Guide to Interpreting Poetry

This book helps readers new to poetry find ways to absorb a poem's meaning. There is usually no right or wrong answer when reading a poem; instead, it's an emotional response. This book gives helpful suggestions about how to get in touch with your emotional response to a poem.