"Susan Holbrook's How to Read (and Write About) Poetry is a terrific textbook for helping students become more confident and careful readers of poetry. Offering a terrific selection of primary texts, from Shakespeare to Harryette Mullen, William Blake to Gertrude Stein, this collection also offers a terrific selection of strategies for and examples of the practice of reading poetry. Holbrook's engaging writing style and judicious groupings of poems offer something for every student and every instructor." -- Deborah Mix, Ball State University

Susan Holbrook is a poet, critic, and professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Windsor.