Fear less poetry in perilous times
"Drawing on deep passion and personal experience, former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith demystifies the art form that has too often been mischaracterized as "inaccessible," "irrelevant," or "intimidating." She argues that poetry is rooted in fundamentally human qualities innate to our capacities to...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Norton shorts.
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Table of Contents:
- Fear less: a poem is a tool for careful listening
- Falling awake: poetry and the work of the unconscious
- Any small thing can save you: on grief and accountability
- Who are you?: on strangers and others
- Feats of consciousness: poetry is a redeeming act
- Be ye not afraid: a brief guide to what poems are and how they do what they do
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix of Poets
- Notes
- Credits
- Index.
