Selected chapter headings from How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry by Adam Sol. Published by ECW Press in 2019. First developed as a popular blog, the book is a collection of thirty-five short essays that help guide those who “don’t get” poetry.
How a poem… Puts Skin on a Mystery Seduces Us with Outlandishness Cooks Up Dark Insight Will (Not) Save Us Doesn’t Dish Impersonates a Tomato Chooses the Apocalypse Behind Curtain #3 Assembles a Smashed Record for Posterity Tries to Get Into It Haunts