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The Hatred of Poetry (Record no. 12331)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781910695159
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 808.1
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Personal name Lerner, Ben
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245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Hatred of Poetry
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Edition statement 3rd ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. England;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Fitzcarraldo Editions;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 115 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. No 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. "In 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 communalexistence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocationno less essential for being impossible.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Poetry
General subdivision History and criticism
9 (RLIN) 393836
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General subdivision Appreciation
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General subdivision Public opinion
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Withdrawn status Lost status Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
        Karachi Karachi Poetry and Drama 13/05/2018 9.99 4 3 808.1 PKLC023522 03/01/2020 21/12/2019 13/05/2018 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
        Lahore Lahore Poetry and Drama 13/05/2018 9.99 5 6 808.1 PKLC021940 04/07/2019 31/03/2019 03/06/2018 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17