Forms of Poetic Attention GIFT BOOKS he’d create a “hostile educational

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Forms of Poetic Attention GIFT BOOKS he’d create a “hostile educationalA poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention. Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. Forms of