The Resistance to Poetry by James Longenbach

The Resistance to Poetry

James Longenbach

144 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 threat...

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