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Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age / Kevin Stein
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
| Year | [2010] |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource |
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| Contents | [1.] On poets and aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? "The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish "When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline Aesthetic dodo [2.] On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers" [3.] On teaching and the writer's workshop. The hammer Voice: what you say and how readers hear it Why kids hate poetry Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems [4.] After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places |
| Notes | At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates Open Access English Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on print version record |
| Authors | *Stein, Kevin, 1954- |
| Subjects | LCSH:American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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| Classification | DC22:811.509 |
| ID | ED00004220 |
| ISBN | 9780472026708 |