From the Valley of Making - Essays on the Craft of Poetry

Klappentext Examines the state of American verse as it enters the first decades of a new millennium! focusing on both the challenges and opportunities of an ancient art as it tries to adapt to the cultural! technological! and political transformations of our turbulent era. Each of these nine essays makes an impassioned and nuanced argument against the so-called marginalization of poetry in contemporary American culture. Zusammenfassung An impassioned consideration of the place of poetry—and the poet—in an ever-changing world

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• Authors: David Wojahn
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9780472052509
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05250-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Poets on Poetry (Paperback); Poets on Poetry; Poets on Poetry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works