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Poetry's afterlife : verse in the digital age /

At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed "death," Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Kevin, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • [1.] On poets and aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity?
  • "The only courage is joy!": ecstasy and doubt in James Wright's poetry
  • Playing favorites: American poetry's top ten-ism fetish
  • "When the frost is on the punkin": newspaper poetry's history and decline
  • Aesthetic dodo
  • [2.] On technology & the writerly life. Poems and pixels: the work of art in an age of digital reproduction
  • A digital poetry playlist: varieties of video and new media poetries
  • These drafts and castoffs: mapping literary manuscripts
  • Death by zeroes and ones: the fate of literary "papers"
  • [3.] On teaching and the writer's workshop. The hammer
  • Voice: what you say and how readers hear it
  • Why kids hate poetry
  • Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems
  • [4.] After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.