别去读诗 – Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt

一本教人如何读诗的书，为什么要叫“别去读诗”？

如果有人告诉你诗是什么、为什么要读诗或该如何读诗，通常来说，他们已经错了。诗歌不是艰涩的高门槛艺术，它表现人类共有的情感，在某个瞬间触动你的神经。

诗歌——不是“诗”，而是一首首的诗歌——能够庆祝新生、抚慰垂死之人，促使你辞职、找到新工作或根本不工作，给你带来如同猜字谜、缝纫、打篮球一般的快乐，最重要的是，它能让你感觉自己并不是孤身一人。

斯蒂芬妮·伯特用六个关键词，剖析了打开一首诗的正确方式。她消解了我们对诗歌这门艺术的紧绷状态，打破偏见，展现了不同时代的诗歌如何相互影响、交流，带领读者走进看似艰涩的当代诗歌之门。

An award-winning poet offers a brilliant introduction to the joys–and challenges–of the genre

In Don’t Read Poetry, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another–and how they can speak to our lives. She shows readers how to find more poems once they have some poems they like, and how to connect the poetry of the past to the poetry of the present. Burt moves seamlessly from Shakespeare and other classics to the contemporary poetry circulated on Tumblr and Twitter. She challenges the assumptions that many of us make about “poetry,” whether we think we like it or think we don’t, in order to help us cherish–and distinguish among–individual poems.

A masterful guide to a sometimes confounding genre, Don’t Read Poetry will instruct and delight ingénues and cognoscenti alike.

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