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Bernstein is so pleasant to read, and this book is filled with great essays that suggest some of the best ways one might approach poetry & teach it. And for that, this is an incredibly important book, for those who teach, or should be teaching poetry.
"For well over a hundred years, we have been living through a period of aesthetic disruption, which is to say, shifting and readjusting to, reeling and spinning from, the social and technological changes of the long twentieth century. Of course, the risk for invention is that your invention fails; it usually fails, since most art produces failure, no matter its successes. The risk of not inventing is to succeed—at little or nothing. So these are poles: it can be admirable to succeed at nothing (...