Playful and serious, unforgiving and compassionate, Poetry: A
Survivor's Guide offers an original take on a subject both loved and
feared. In a series of provocative and inspiring propositions, the act
of reading a poem is made new, and the act of writing one is made over.
Questions of poetry's difficulty, pretension, and relevance are explored
with insight and daring. In an age of new media and social networking,
this handbook-cum-manifesto provides fresh reverence for one of our
oldest forms of art.