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The Form of Love is a stunningly original analysis of how 'loving reading' is also a form of thinking. Kuzner performs this thinking as he lovingly reads through lyric poems we thought we knew and--by lingering over odd figures, prosodic strangeness, contradictions, uncertainties, and confessions of incomplete, even failed knowledge--reveals how much we have yet to see. Eschewing masterful pronouncements in favor of surprise, frustration, and pleasure, Kuzner shows us what we can discover if we take both poems and ourselves less seriously.---Melissa E. Sanchez, author of Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition This extraordinary book pursues two questions at the heart of literary study in our time: How can poems tell us anything we don't already know? How can we relate to lives that aren't ours? Kuzner's astonishing readings of metaphysical poems illuminate virtual experiences in which we can participate, but with which we cannot identify.---Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve University

The Form of Love is a stunningly original analysis of how 'loving reading' is also a form of thinking. Kuzner performs this thinking as he lovingly reads through lyric poems we thought we knew and-by lingering over odd figures, prosodic strangeness, contradictions, uncertainties, and confessions of incomplete, even failed knowledge-reveals how much we have yet to see. Eschewing masterful pronouncements in favor of surprise, frustration, and pleasure, Kuzner shows us what we can discover if we take both poems and ourselves less seriously. -- Melissa E. Sanchez, author of Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition This extraordinary book pursues two questions at the heart of literary study in our time: How can poems tell us anything we don't already know? How can we relate to lives that aren't ours? Kuzner's astonishing readings of metaphysical poems illuminate virtual experiences in which we can participate, but with which we cannot identify. -- Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve University

This extraordinary book pursues two questions at the heart of literary study in our time: How can poems tell us anything we don't already know? How can we relate to lives that aren't ours? Kuzner's astonishing readings of metaphysical poems illuminate virtual experiences in which we can participate, but with which we cannot identify. -- Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve University The Form of Love is a stunningly original analysis of how 'loving reading' is also a form of thinking. Kuzner performs this thinking as he lovingly reads through lyric poems we thought we knew and-by lingering over odd figures, prosodic strangeness, contradictions, uncertainties, and confessions of incomplete, even failed knowledge-reveals how much we have yet to see. Eschewing masterful pronouncements in favor of surprise, frustration, and pleasure, Kuzner shows us what we can discover if we take both poems and ourselves less seriously. -- Melissa E. Sanchez, author of Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

This extraordinary book pursues two questions at the heart of literary study in our time: How can poems tell us anything we don't already know? How can we relate to lives that aren't ours? Kuzner's astonishing readings of metaphysical poems illuminate virtual experiences in which we can participate, but with which we cannot identify. --Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve University The Form of Love is a stunningly original analysis of how 'loving reading' is also a form of thinking. Kuzner performs this thinking as he lovingly reads through lyric poems we thought we knew and--by lingering over odd figures, prosodic strangeness, contradictions, uncertainties, and confessions of incomplete, even failed knowledge--reveals how much we have yet to see. Eschewing masterful pronouncements in favor of surprise, frustration, and pleasure, Kuzner shows us what we can discover if we take both poems and ourselves less seriously. --Melissa E. Sanchez, author of Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition

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James Kuzner is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Shakespeare as a Way of Life and Open Subjects.

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