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Where people who are puzzled by poetry go wrong, he thinks, is in expecting poems to say something straightforward about life, to be useful.
In "Why Poetry?" (Ecco), out this summer, Matthew Zapruder defines a poet as a writer who is prepared "to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility". Where people who are puzzled by poetry go wrong, he thinks, is in expecting poems to say something straightforward about life, to be useful.
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