To write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic
ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and
more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular
intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that
expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always
be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has
diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's ways of
thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In
How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic
inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of
poets-Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams,
Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons
explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other
elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration
and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic
thinking.
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