The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world twenty-first century readers.

"Poems spurn skimming. They entreat our full attention. A distracted age such as ours, then, seems an unpropitious time for poetry. Dense, oblique, relatively l

"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--

The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given to the role of

What does poetry bring to business? According to Clare Morgan and her coauthors, it brings a complexity and flexibility of thinking, along with the ability to e