From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry
University of Michigan Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-0-472-07250-7 | Paper: 978-0-472-05250-9
Library of Congress Classification PN1059.A9W64 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.1
Cloth: 978-0-472-07250-7 | Paper: 978-0-472-05250-9
Library of Congress Classification PN1059.A9W64 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.1
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 argument against 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, Zbigniew Herbert, C.P. Cavafy, and Tomas Transtromer. These are personable, opinionated, and, above all, readable essays by a widely admired poet-critic.
See other books on: Authorship | Making | Poetics | Valley | Wojahn, David
See other titles from University of Michigan Press
