Fiction
ABC of Reading (New Directions Paperbook, 1186)
A New Directions paperback of Ezra Pound's 1934 primer on how to read poetry as a maker rather than a consumer. Pound's examples range from Homer to the troubadours to Chinese poetry, and his pronouncements are as wrongheaded as they are illuminating. The Michael Dirda introduction helps situate the book without excusing its author. The New Directions cover is the familiar black-and-white design, the type is small, and the price is low enough to justify annotation. Ideal reader: the young poet who needs to be told to throw out everything derivative, or the critic who wants to argue with Pound on every page.
$8.00
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