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FROM THE VALLEY OF MAKING
ESSAYS ON THE CRAFT OF POETRY |
| By: |
David Wojahn |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£72.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0472072501 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780472072507 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 March, 2015 |
| Series: |
Poets on Poetry |
| Pages: |
230 |
| Description: |
An impassioned consideration of the place of poetry and the poet in an ever-changing world" |
| Synopsis: |
David Wojahn 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 argumentagainst the so-called marginalization of poetry in contemporary American culture. Among the work included is a penetrating essay on the role of politics in contemporary verse, a querulous examination of the rise of what Wojahn terms "the Google poem," and a meditation on poetry and "self-doubt." Among the figures he considers are American poets such as Hayden Carruth, John Berryman, Linda Bierds, and Tom Sleigh, as well as crucial modern international poets, among them Nazim Hikmet, ZbigniewHerbert, C.P. Cavafy, and Tomas Transtromer. These are personable, opinionated, and, above all, readable essays by a widely admired poet critic. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press |
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Returnable |
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