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The Difference Is Spreading - Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (Paperback)
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The Difference Is Spreading - Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (Paperback)
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Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online
introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some
415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets with its focus on a
modern and contemporary American tradition that runs from Walt
Whitman and Emily Dickinson up to some of today's freshest and most
experimental written and spoken verse. In The Difference Is
Spreading, ModPo's Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford have handed
the microphone over to the poets themselves, by inviting fifty of
them to select and comment upon a poem by another writer. The
approaches taken are various, confirming that there are as many
ways for a poet to write about someone else's poem as there are
poet-poem matches in this volume. Yet a straight-through reading of
the fifty poems anthologized here, along with the fifty responses
to them, emphatically demonstrates the importance to poetry of
community, of socioaesthetic networks and lines of connection, and
of expressions of affection and honor due to one's innovative
colleagues and predecessors. Through the curation of these
selections, Filreis and Safford express their belief that the poems
that are most challenging and most dynamic are those that are
open-the writings, that is, that ask their readers to participate
in making their meaning. Poetry happens when a reader and a poet
come in contact with one another, when the reader, whether
celebrated poet or novice, is invited to do interpretive work-for
without that convergence, poetry is inert.
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