Description: The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.
Review Quotes: "The question of how to read difficult poetry (in this case, poetry written explicitly in the Modernist, or avant-garde, tradition) is a familiar subject, so a volume of this kind is a significant contribution to the field." -- Joel Bettridge, author of Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith