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A Million MFAs Are Not Enough /

Something is rotten in the state of American poetry. With respect to audience and artistry, poetry has shot itself in many portions of its anatomy, and keeps blasting. The fact that vast numbers of poems are published every year, and a large number of Creative Writing students and graduates combin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Webb, Charles Harper (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Apples and orangutans : competing values in contemporary poetry
  • Five stand up poets
  • In defense of clarity
  • Depression and American poetry : a psychotherapeutic approach
  • The pleasure of their company : voice and poetry
  • The myth of maturity
  • A defense of humor in poetry
  • How i met the prose poem, and what ensued
  • The poem as fitness display
  • Back to the narrative : breathing new life into a tired form
  • Where i stand
  • A musician considers the music of poetry
  • How do they do it? : The powerful poems of Dorianne Laux and B.H. Fairchild
  • When goodness is not a virtue : morality, psychology, and poetry
  • The quick and the dead : an energy crisis in poetry
  • The limits of indeterminacy : a defense of less difficult poetry