How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love With Poetry

"I take [Hirsch's] Barnum & Bailey promises--'You will hear the harshest trochee! You will experience animal intensity in the mouth!'--as posters for a circus Hirsch is no longer sure anybody wants to go to....Hirsch is unabashedly on the side of true depths of feeling and arrays an international host of poets to demonstrate how it's possible to transcend afternoon-television emotion. And yet he is everywhere hampered by his need to explain the simplest things to readers who are, presumably, products of our superficial, media-driven culture."Hirsch, Edward is the author of 'How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love With Poetry', published 1999 under ISBN 9780151004195 and ISBN 0151004196.