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Why Poetry
by Matthew Zapruder
Dec. 12, 2020 - Dec. 18, 2020 (read/literary-criticism/memoirs/poetry)

Zapruder, M. (2018). Why Poetry. Ecco.


Ecco, 2018. 256 pages. Paperback. 9780062343086

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p.189
paratactic »
(adj) relating to parataxis, a grammatical concep…
p.187
elegiac »
relating to or characteristic of an elegy.
p.24
salutary »
(adjective) producing a beneficial effect; remedi…
p.22
penumbra »
the partially shaded outer region of the shadow c…
p.64
The Double Room
A room that is like a reverie, a room truly soulf…
p.224
poems are imaginative structures built out of wor…
What is the special role of poetry in this condit…
p.194
White Morning
the crows were calling around me to white air I …
p.191
The Furrow
Did I think it would abide as it was forever …
p.190
clarity for me in poetry is a kind of generosity
I OFTEN SAY TO MY STUDENTS—AND IT IS STILL SO FUN…