{"product_id":"the-hatred-of-poetry-paperback","title":"The Hatred of Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In \u003ci\u003eThe Hatred of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Lerner\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He has received fellowships from the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundations, and is the author of two internationally acclaimed novels, \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Atocha Station\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e10:04. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has published three\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epoetry collections: \u003ci\u003eThe Lichtenberg Figures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Angle of Yaw\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Mean Free Path\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn Colleg\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.3 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337030426989,"sku":"9780865478206","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/TmlsMkU4ZHFoS1ZieitiQU9wUnFQZz09.webp?v=1778922888","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hatred-of-poetry-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}