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Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems Local With soulful insight into whatBy Stephanie Burt At once erudite and colloquial (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetry In Dont Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one anotherand how they can speak to our lives. She shows