Can poetry matter?
Can poetry matter?: essays on poetry and culture
by Dana Gioia
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1992.
ISBN: 1555971776
LCC: PN1031
Edition: (pbk.)
Notes:
Can poetry matter? -- The dilemma of the long poem -- Notes on the
new formalism -- Strong counsel (Robinson Jeffers) -- The loneliness
of Weldon Kees -- The anonymity of the regional poet (Ted Kooser) --
Business and poetry -- Two views of Wallace Stevens: The sense of the
sleight-of-hand man; The Emperor of Hartford -- Bourgeois in Bohemia
(T.S. Eliot) -- The successful career of Robert Bly -- Short views.
John Ashbery; Margaret Atwood; Jared Carter; James Dickey; Tom Disch;
Maxine Kumin; Radcliffe Squires; Theodore Weiss -- The difficult case
of Howard Moss -- Tradition and an individual talent (Donald Justice)
-- The example of Elizabeth Bishop -- The poet in an age of prose.
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