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<html><body><h1>THE RESISTANCE TO POETRY</h1><hr noshade size="1">By James Longenbach</hr><h4>THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS</h4>Copyright &copy; 2004 The University of Chicago All right reserved. ISBN: 978-0-226-49249-0 <hr noshade size='1'></hr><h3>Contents</h3><pre>Preface..........................................xiI. The Resistance to Poetry......................1II. The End of the Line..........................12III. Forms of Disjunction........................26IV. Song and Story...............................38V. Untidy Activity...............................50VI. The Spokenness of Poetry.....................61VII. The Other Hand..............................72VIII. Leaving Things Out.........................84IX. Composed Wonder..............................95Bibliography.....................................109Index............................................119</pre> </pre><blockquote><hr noshade size='1'>Excerpted from THE RESISTANCE TO POETRYby James Longenbach Copyright &copy 2004 by The University of Chicago. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.<hr noshade size='1'></blockquote></body></html>

Poems convey knowledge, argues Longenbach, but do so in forms that work against their being facile vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. This self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it

The resistance to poetry