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A Grain of Poetry: How to Read Contemporary Poems and Make Them a Part of Your Life
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Perennial
Publication date August 1, 2000
Pages 175
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780060930714
ISBN-10 0060930713
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight 0.40 lbs.
Original list price $12.99
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Summary
The award-winning author of A Call to Character offers a helpful handbook for reading and interpreting contemporary poetry and includes a series of critical guidelines to help readers discover poetry that both informs and inspires them. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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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 antic as life, and yet reading modern poetry can be shocking to our sense of what language is or must be.

In A Grain of Poetry, Herbert Kohl presents a series of guideposts to help everyone read poetry and discover those poems that inform and inspire them. In clear, direct language, he covers all of the essential-but often unchartedpaths to understanding poetry: form and structure, line breaks and pauses, rhythm and melody, imagery, and recitation. Written by one of the country's leading educators, A Grain of Poetry is a comprehensive and accessible guide for all poets, students, and poetry lovers.



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Hardcover
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from Harperflamingo (April 1, 1999)
9780060187835 | details & prices | 175 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $23.00
About: Offers a handbook for reading and interpreting contemporary poetry and includes a series of critical guidelines to help readers discover poetry that informs and inspires them
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Perennial (August 1, 2000)
9780060930714 | details & prices | 175 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $12.99
About: Offers a handbook for reading and interpreting contemporary poetry and includes a series of critical guidelines to help readers discover poetry that informs and inspires them.

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