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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.Longenbach, James is the author of 'Resistance to Poetry ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780226492506 and ISBN 0226492508.
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