Zapruder, Matthew, 1967-

Why poetry / Matthew Zapruder. - First edition. - xvi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index.

Three beginnings and the machine of poetry -- Literalists of the imagination -- Make it strange -- Some thoughts on form and why I rhyme -- The one thing that can save America -- Negative capability -- Three political poems -- Dream meaning -- Alien names -- True symbols -- Most of the stories have to do with vanishing -- Nothing is the force that renovates the world.

9780062343079 0062343076

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Poetry--History and criticism.

PN1111 / .Z37 2017