A01=Reginald Gibbons
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Author_Reginald Gibbons
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england
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feeling
greece
gwendolyn brooks
humanities
john keats
language
literary
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marina tsvetaeva
metaphor
modernism
pindar
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poetic
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rhythms
romantics
russia
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sappho
shakespeare
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thought
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united states of america
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226277950
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 15 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 23 Sep 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets-Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.
Reginald Gibbons is the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. His most recent poetry collections are Creatures of a Day, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories.
