How Poems Think

by Reginald Gibbons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022627800X
• ISBN13: 9780226278001
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"