/lit/ - Literature

>>11936353
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The Big Tomato
A Poet's Guide to Poetry

Has anyone else read this book? I've never come across a book about poetry that treats it as a science instead of an art. Are there any other books like it? To be honest, I think I'm too fucking stupid for this book. I often need to re-read sentences a few times because of how dense it is.

Oh, and if you're thinking about using this book to learn about the basics of poetry, you'll wind up crestfallen. You need a good understanding of poetry just to be receptive to what is being covered. Perrine's Sound and Sense is pretty much a prerequisite, and a good starting point.

>>10481422
Holy shit I am fucking retarded.
>be me
>browsing /lit/
>see newfag ask about Odyssey Translation
>browse the answers
>start to get confused that no one has mentioned the James Joyce translation
>look up the James Joyce translation
>mfw he wrote "Ulysses"
>mfw when I've been on /lit/ for 3 years and just realised they are two different entities

For a slow board threads about e-whoring are surely staying up long.

>neverending postmodernity

>>10256555
>tfw we will never get a 1968-style revolt again, everyone has accepted the system

>>10240525
Fuck.

Is existentialism the logical conclusion of Western cukture? Having deconstructed God, culture, beauty and truth, what do we have left but nothingness?