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Private Poets, Worldly Acts
Kevin Stein
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Description for Private Poets, Worldly Acts
hardcover. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets have manifested their communal concerns. As Choice wrote, \u201cStein's graceful text is a primer on the relationship of the (American) poetic to the political.\u201d
Looking through the lens of the careers of Robert Lowell, James Wright, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, David Wojahn, and Carolyn Forch\u00e9, Stein illuminates the various ways contemporary poets redeem a vision of ... Read more
At a time when poets appear tragically detached from the public for which they write, Kevin Stein persuasively demonstrates in Private Poets, Worldy Acts the way a particular group of diverse poets have manifested their communal concerns. As Choice wrote, \u201cStein's graceful text is a primer on the relationship of the (American) poetic to the political.\u201d
Looking through the lens of the careers of Robert Lowell, James Wright, Frank O'Hara, Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, David Wojahn, and Carolyn Forch\u00e9, Stein illuminates the various ways contemporary poets redeem a vision of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Athens, United States
ISBN
9780821411636
SKU
V9780821411636
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About Kevin Stein
Kevin Stein is a poet and critic and the author of James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man (Ohio University Press, 1988) and Private Poets, Wordly Acts (Ohio University Press, 1996). He teaches at Bradley University.
Reviews for Private Poets, Worldly Acts
"No doubt because Stein is both poet and critic, his study is readable, vivid, unclotted, and written with flair and fluidity."
American Literature "Stein's analysis of an important shift in contemporary American poetry should interest any serious student of the genre."
North Dakota Quarterly
American Literature "Stein's analysis of an important shift in contemporary American poetry should interest any serious student of the genre."
North Dakota Quarterly