TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dan Valenti
PY  - 2024
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781636676807
TI  - Verse or Adverse
T2  - How to Read and Enjoy Poetry
DO  - 10.3726/b21723
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1376277
N2  - Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. Technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life leave many students and readers in the dark. Just in time, this book comes to the rescue not just with a response to the problem of understanding and enjoying poetry, but it offers a solution. A widely published writer and poet, the author takes the mystery and madness out of verse with specific strategies designed to tame the poetic wilderness—not by dumbing down the poems but by raising the ability of readers to absorb this gem of literary form. Readers of all abilities and sensibilities will profit from the book’s ability to drill down to the bedrock of meaning. Valenti mines his decades of experience writing, publishing, and teaching poetry to provide innovative hints, tips, guidelines, and directives that will benefit anyone wishing to cultivate their enjoyment of literature’s highest form of expression.
KW  - Poetry, formal verse, blank verse, free verse, poetic forms, rhyme, meter, the amazing power of words, utility for thought, hip hop, figurative language, simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, linguistic, fireworks, imagery, Verse or Adverse, How to Read and Enjoy Poetry, Dan Valenti
LA  - English
ER  -