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By Diane Seuss

Narrated by: Diane Seuss

Unabridged — 2 hours, 38 minutes

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss returns with a stand-out collection about the art and craft and legacy of poetry itself. Told in a sharp and funny voice, Seuss creates a reading experience unlike any other with her turns of phrase and lines that are like a punch to the gut.

Diane Seuss's signature voice-audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude-has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry, from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-equipped student, one who felt poetry was beyond her reach. Many of the poems make use of the forms and terms of musical and poetic craft-ballad, fugu...