The Hatred of Poetry

by Ben Lerner

Book Overview

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore."

In this inventive and lucid...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865478201
• ISBN13: 9780865478206
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Fsg Originals
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.9" x 7.3"