CBR14Bingo – Verse The Hatred of Poetry This book is just fantastic. I’ve never not thoroughly enjoyed any of Ben Lerner’s books (and maybe one day I will read some of his poetry). He takes the topic of why people hate poetry and thinks through the wheres and whys of it — that it’s old, that it’s hard to read, that it’s oblique, and that it’s annoying. But he’s a poet and well, irony and all that. “Poetry arises from the desire to get beyond […]