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I’m so glad you’re interested in looking more into poetry! From your post I would highly recommend reading a book called Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder. It’s a pretty popular book so you should be able to find it used or at a Barnes and noble. He does an amazing job of going at poetry with a new approach, explaining what it can do for us and why it’s important, and ways it can be more accessible to people who say they don’t understand poetry.

From amazon: Product description An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder

In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it.

Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose.

Here’s the link to buy it on amazon

Why Poetry, By Matthew Zapruder.

(A) I can't fully vouch for this book, haven't read it thru and thru yet.

(B) I just picked it up literally 2 days ago.

(C) In the bookstore though, the flap, intro and a few random samplings seemed to make it a reasonable read.

He doesnt' take on an acedemic stance about rhyme and meter and iambic pentameters etc, but talks more about how we tend to read poems, how we've culturally beeen trained to read poems, and offers some strategy on how to break down the language and motifs.

So it seems.

That's all I got for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Poetry-Matthew-Zapruder/dp/0062343076

"Why Poetry" by Matthew Zapruder. I'm in the middle of it now. It's contemporary, fairly new, I think. I highly recommend it! (though preferably not from Amazon...just the easiest way to show you a link! :)