Poemed on a Beach
A Skeptic's Guide to Modern Poetry
Ranked #54 in Poetry Writing
Nonfiction. Poetry Reference. A linguist (Warren Fulton) describes what happens when a poet from New York by way of Germany (David Jaffin) comes to a beach in Florida for a poetry reading. Confronting a curious but cautious international audience, Jaffin finds that although there are many ways to misunderstand what he's saying, there are many more ways of uncovering meaning, even down to levels of truth he himself had not traveled. The book is not only a treatment of how modern-day people respond to a modernist voice, but also how in the process they learn the language of poetry, an... more
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