Slow Reading for Fast Times: How to Rescue Poetry in Small Daily Doses
The Jealousy Engine: Envy as Craft. How to Decode Any Poem
You just closed another poetry book feeling like you're missing something essential.
That poem everyone calls "breathtaking"? It left you cold. The one that won the prize? You read it three times and still don't see what's special about it.
Can't Interpret Poetry? You're Reading for the Wrong Thing
But here's what expensive writing programs won't tell you: Those confusing poems aren't hiding meaning from you. They're hiding techniques. Specific, learnable moves that you can steal for your own writing.
The poets who seem to effortlessly "get it" aren't more sensitive or intelligent. They've simply learned to read differently, not for understanding, but for method.
And once you learn their 12-minute practice, you'll never read (or write) the same way again.