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Book Title
By Heart : Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard
Publication Name
By Heart
Title
By Heart
Subtitle
Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard
Author
Philip Brady
Format
Hardcover
EAN
9781572336322
ISBN
9781572336322
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Release Date
30/11/2008
Release Year
2008
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Publication Year
2008
Item Height
0.7in
Topic
Poetry, American / General
Number of Pages
180 Pages

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With a perfect balance of playfulness, humor, and apology, Philip Brady calls himself a bard. But he explains that, before the title became shrouded in mystery, bards were simply teachers, unknown and poor, who gave literal voice to poems through recitations. Woven throughout these twenty essays is Brady's resistance to the academic expectations and settings of poetic instruction, enabling him to elicit the most authentic and surprising responses from a range of voices. He is motivated by the possibility of poetry expressed in the grittiest of places and takes readers from the rust belts of Ohio, to the far-flung pubs of Ireland, to Zairian classrooms with few books and fidgety lightbulbs. Most of all, he believes that, while bad poetry is a fact of life, good poetry should be studied and learned by heart. Brady doesn't resort to dissecting poems here, though poems-his own and those of many of his masters, from Yeats to Tu Fu-do appear. Instead, the poetic language of his observations seems to fulfill a greater purpose: "Voiced, the poem is transfigured from a printed glyph to sensory language: ephemeral, but with a tensile strength derived from the collective memory that births it. Critics may feel differently, but what matters to a poem is not how many times it is reprinted, but how deeply it penetrates the heart." These essays are meditations grounded in the author's life as a poet, teacher, publisher, musician, traveler, and organizer. In one, readers encounter non-traditional students who attend class after work and whose lives are already shaped by burden. Brady recognizes the tension between reading poetry as an academic exercise and reading it for its power to endow all people with a broader sense of the self that is informed by both the dead and the living. He celebrates the challenges that his students bring to the classroom by forging headlong into discussions that other instructors would cringe at-as when a student declares that he doesn't like reading old poetry but instead likes greeting-card poems. Brady masterfully turns this potentially deflating moment into one that is both validating and deeply inspiring-for student and reader.

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Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
ISBN-10
1572336323
ISBN-13
9781572336322
eBay Product ID (ePID)
69565085

Product Key Features

Book Title
By Heart : Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard
Author
Philip Brady
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry, American / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry
Number of Pages
180 Pages

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Item Height
0.7in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.R2437z46 2008
Reviews
"This is a book that is sensible and smart. It throbs with life and style and the hard iron of living--the words beaten into tensile strength, all rust scoured into thought." --Sam Pickering
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-010461
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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