By Kevin Stein
ISBN-10: 0472050990
ISBN-13: 9780472050994
The good excitement of this ebook is the writing itself. not just is it freed from educational and ‘lit-crit' jargon, it's full of life prose, frequently deliciously witty or funny, and completely modern. Poetry's Afterlife has fantastic school room strength, from trouble-free institution lecturers trying to encourage creativity of their scholars, to graduate scholars in MFA courses, to operating poets who fight with the cultured dilemmas Stein elucidates, and to lecturers of poetry on any level.--- Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Arizona nation University"Kevin Stein is the main astute poet-critic of his iteration, and this can be a an important booklet, confronting the main vexing concerns which poetry faces in a brand new century."---David Wojahn, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityAt a time while so much commentators fixate on American poetry's intended "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife in its place proposes the power of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife mixture memoir, scholarship, and private essay to survey the present poetry scene, hint how we arrived right here, and recommend the place poetry is headed in our more and more electronic tradition. the result's a publication either fetchingly insightful and available. Poetry's lively afterlife has come regardless of, or maybe due to, 20 years of statement diagnosing American poetry as moribund if now not already deceased. along with his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and faculties, Stein has came across that poetry has now not given up its literary ghost. For a fated paintings supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry nowadays is up and doing within the streets, colleges, and universities, and on-line in new and compelling electronic types. It thrives one of the humans in a full of life if curious underground lifestyles principally ignored by way of nationwide media. it really is this moment existence, or greater, Poetry's Afterlife, that his ebook examines and celebrates.Kevin Stein is Caterpillar Professor of English and Director of the inventive Writing software at Bradley collage and has served as Illinois Poet Laureate when you consider that 2003, having assumed the placement previously held through Gwendolyn Brooks and Carl Sandburg. he's the writer of diverse books of poetry and criticism.digitalculturebooksis an imprint of the college of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publishing place of work of the college of Michigan Library devoted to publishing leading edge and obtainable paintings exploring new media and their effect on society, tradition, and scholarly verbal exchange. stopover at the web site at www.digitalculture.org.
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