The Value of Poetry
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- Author: Eric Falci, University of California, Berkeley
- Date Published: December 2020
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108454476
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Eric Falci's The Value of Poetry offers an evaluation and critique of the literary, cultural, and political value of poetry in the twenty-first century. Falci claims that some of the most vital, significant, and enduring human notions have been voiced and held in poems. Poems marble civilizations: they catch courses of thought, tracks of feeling, and acts of speech and embed these shapes in language that is, in some fashion, poised toward the future. Falci argues that poetry is a vital medium in addressing and understanding some of the most pressing issues of our time. Ranging widely across canonical and contemporary poetry, The Value of Poetry shows how poems matter, and what poetry offers to readers in the contemporary world.
Read more- Provides a concise but rich account of the major critical and theoretical work that has shaped poetry and poetry criticism
- Offers detailed and lively readings of significant contemporary poems that consider all major matters of form, style, and genre
- Provides an original presentation of the importance of poetry in the twenty-first century
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‘Drawing on an ample range of contemporary sources, Falci explores how poetry uses its formal wiles and intuitive craft to respond to the world it must answer to and which inflects its thinking, language choices and physical stance. A stylish, provocative and exhilarating book, it will serve both poets and readers to probe the effects of a good poem, and how it succeeds in achieving them.' Vona Groarke, The University of Manchester
See more reviews‘This is a formidably intelligent, packed, articulate and rewarding book...Conceptually omnicompetent in poetics, it is also, in its local observations, technically precise and questioning. It is a state-of-the-art investigation which is also independent and takes nothing for granted.' John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge
‘A powerful, eloquent defense of poetry, alive to its intricacy, complexity, and variety, this book offers a riveting account of poetry's special strengths and capacities. Falci illuminates poetry's play, materiality, and formal resources; its staging of subjectivity's fractured multiplicity; its intertwining of thought and feeling; and its drive to recollect the irretrievable past. Grounded in rich, multivalent readings of contemporary poems of many different kinds, this is one of the very best recent books on poetry.' Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia
'… the value of The Value of Poetry lies in its unpredictable transformations of diverse poems into shared reading experiences of contemporary media and format rather than lyricized linguistic objects.' Ben Glaser, Modern Philology
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- Date Published: December 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108454476
- length: 170 pages
- dimensions: 140 x 215 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.25kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Attention and Play
2. Worlds and Selves
3. Feeling Thought
4. Recollection
Conclusion.
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