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David Wojahn - From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (Poets on Poetry) - 9780472052509 - V9780472052509
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From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (Poets on Poetry)

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Description for From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry (Poets on Poetry) Paperback. An impassioned consideration of the place of poetry and the poet in an ever-changing world" Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.

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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472052509
SKU
V9780472052509
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Ref
99-50

About David Wojahn
David Wojahn is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982–2004, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, a winner of both the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize, and the Poets’ Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship. A previous book of his essays on verse, Strange Good Fortune, appeared in 2001.

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