Research Catalog

Title

Can poetry matter? : essays on poetry and American culture / by Dana Gioia.

Author

Gioia, Dana

Publication

St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2002.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xviii, 231 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Poetry > History and criticism
• Criticism
• Literature and society
• Literature and society > United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published: Can poetry matter? Essays on poetry and culture.^ St Paul : Graywolf, 1992.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

1555973701 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 50706246
• SCSB-12076827

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library