Words, Words, Words. We All Use Them. So We're All Experts In Poetry

In his new book, “Why Poetry,”Matthew Zapruder makes the bold assertion that understanding poetry requires “forgetting many incorrect things we have learned in school” and accepting “what is right before us on the page.” Any reader can do that, he says, because “we are all experts in words; we have been for a long time. And any word we don’t know we can look up.”

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