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  • How a Poem Moves

  • A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
  • By: Adam Sol
  • Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
  • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary

A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse

Developed from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks listeners through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging intelligence for which he is known in the classroom. With a breezy style, Sol delivers essays that are perfect for a quick listen or to be grouped together as a curriculum.

Though How a Poem Moves is not a textbook, it demonstrates poetry’s range and pleasures through encounters with individual poems that span traditions, techniques, and ambitions. This illuminating book is for those who are afraid they “don’t get” poetry but who believe that, with a welcoming guide, they might conquer their fear and cultivate a new appreciation.

©2019 Adam Sol (P)2019 ECW Press
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Critic reviews

“It provides a gateway for some of us to discover a new pleasure, and others of us to take a closer look at the poetry we love.” (Toronto Star)

“Adam Sol approaches poetry with a unique sensitivity; one that illustrates with exceptional clarity and insight, just how a poem moves.” (Scott Griffin, founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize)

“This unassuming book provides a great public service - it removes the shroud of mystery that hovers between too many readers and the world of poetry . . . Sol deserves to be read widely and freely; his humble witness to the simple art of reading may be this book's most important gift. Libraries should have multiple copies.” (Library Journal, starred review)

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