A review by asdfgeoff
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch

2.0

I was expecting a selection of poems and commentary/analysis on them, organized in a structure which improves the reader's ability to comprehend more nuanced poetry. Instead, I found this book contained mostly gushing descriptions of how great poetry is, without any real tangible wisdom for improving one's ability to appreciate it.

e.g. “Lyric poetry is one of the soul's natural habitats. The poem of high spiritual attainment has the power, the almost magical potential, to re-lease something that dwells deep within us.”