The Resistance to Poetry

by James Longenbach

Book Overview

Poems inspire our trust, argues James Longenbach in this bracing work, because they don't necessarily ask to be trusted. Theirs is the language of self-questioning-metaphors that turn against themselves, syntax that moves one way because it threatens to move another. Poems resist themselves more strenuously than they are resisted by the cultures receiving them.

But the resistance to poetry is quite specifically the wonder of poetry. Considering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226492508
• ISBN13: 9780226492506
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.5"